Hi Louise and everyone First off, thank you Louise for letting us know of an update to this fascinating lace resource.
I have a copy. This book of pictures of the pages of samples are *big* pages, 12 inch spine and each page aboutt 17 inches widthwise, opened up you need quite an available space to place the book. Although it is coil bound, which does help with handling, I don't look at it often; the big floppy pages are cumbersome. I made photocopies of pages I was interested in for easier reference. So, yada yada - 'reformatted' I hope means it will be easier to handle, and with a DVD, that eliminates the need to duplicate the pattern book page precisely, which I think was the reason for the large pages in the first place. I await with interest to see what it will be like! I was in on the one and only Arachne raffle/fund-raiser (in the end of doubtful legality it was decided, so no more), bought a ticket or two, and even won one of the prizes, a set of Honiton grids donated by Itsa Bobbins, the late Geoff Downs. This set surfaced just last night, and I had made up my mind to raffle them again in our usual free draw - there will be another message. How timely to read again of the Lace Dealer's Pattern Book and our lace-list involvement. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Louise Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > > For those of you who don't know it: the Pattern book is about 40 pages of > small samples of mostly Bucks but some Beds from the mid 19th century. It is > thought to have been owned by a Northampton Dealer John Spencer, but it also > may have come though Thomas Lester's firm. In 1994 The Museum launched an > appeal to have the book restored and Arachnes were very active in raising > funds. When the restoration was completed a book of pictures of the pages of > samples was issued to accompany the exhibition. ... > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
