I rarely borrow from a library now -
When I started lacemaking, my father had to feed, and pay tuition(?) for 6
other children. Those days I used to be a jack-of-all-trades with loaned
books, but I finally concentrated on bobbin lace. If it wasn't for the
library I might have never started at
> It leads me to wonder how libraries here decided to
> put lacemaking titles on
> their shelves, back in the 1980's .
My local library has a few lace books. Most of them
contain statements that they were donated to the
library by Robin & Russ Handweavers. It's possible
that other libraries also
some more random ramblings on the matter
wanted to use the patterns for free by borrowing the book from the library.
> That shows they put no value on the work done by the designer. Would they
> be
> employed for no pay?
Nothing is really 'free' ;)
The library user does pay in some way - at
