The title for this item is "Lacemaking.Is this the best book?"
'Tradional Lace' Making by Sally Johanson
The flyleaf has a statement which I find quite insulting to the lacemakers
whose names we all know and who kept the craft alive so that we can now
enjoy it. Admittedly it was originally publis
Avital wrote:
They sent me a questionnaire each time and then they used it to write the
blurb, which I must say I didn't recognise as me, but although the content
of my books was unique at the time (that's why they were so eager to
publish) the publisher didn't make that claim. We were surprised
> > need - the looms, the bobbins, the diferent threads."
> >
> What looms? or search for item number 3528732598
> Jean in Poole
Could the circular frame for Teneriffe (spelling ?)
be defined as a "loom" ?
Toni in Seattle
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Hi All, I may be wrong but the part with the insulting comments appears to
be on the dust jacket (or back of the book). I think the publisher/editor
usually writes those, not the author. Can some of our published author's
tell us?
Jane in Vermont where we got the air conditioners in and running
oks.
Jean, does your publisher have you write the dust jacket blurbs?
Avital
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Jean,
This book was written in 1964 when lace making all over was dead or
dying. Sally Johanson was one of the Lace workers who did so much to
ensure that it did not die completely. The original of this book was
published well before any of the modern English lace books. (Pamela
Nottingham 197
Dear Jean, May I ask the title of your book as i am a rider as well as a
lacemaker and have made several show shirts already Please feel free to
email off list Thank you Pat Frese @ comcast.net in Pennsylvania where it
finally stopped raining
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That's what makes me think that the blurb was written by an editor. Unless
the author were truly ignorant of developments in her field or didn't mind
looking like a fool, I doubt very much she'd have written such a claim. To
me, it sounds like marketing hype, nothing more. Think of some of those
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