[lace] Re: Le Pompe 1559 - Price of Lace Books

2011-04-29 Thread Susan Reishus
Le Pompe book reprinted in other publications *** There is a Le Pompe (2) listed within CSArizona publications.  I didn't check to see if it is one and the same: www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pompe2.pdf For those newer to lace, picking up the basic books and those of one's favored

[lace] Re: Le Pompe 1559

2008-04-20 Thread Ruth Bean
As Tamara says there has been only one edition and one impression (1983) of Le Pompe 1559. This sold for £9 and the ISBN was 0 903585 16 2 (current 13-digit equivalent is 978 0 903585 16 3 - with different check digit). We still have a few copies available which were put aside with minor

RE: [lace] Re: Le Pompe 1559

2008-04-20 Thread Sue
Thank you one and all for information regarding Le Pompe, think I will hang on to it for a while. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.2/1386 - Release Date: 18/04/2008 17:24 - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Re: Le Pompe 1559

2008-04-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Apr 16, 2008, at 5:15, Sue (Harvey) wrote: I was just about to put some books on ebay including Le Pompe 1559 when I noticed another offer of the same title they were asking a starting bid of £49.99 the reason stated was it was 1983 first edition with ISBN 0 903585 16 2 - mine is identical

[lace] Re: Le Pompe book 2 - long

2007-04-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Apr 7, 2007, at 17:38, Leonard Bazar wrote: Tamara commented that the wood cuts' accuracy is brought out by using them - they make very accurate prickings. I'm reconstructing a (plaited, mostly) piece from LPII for the next Bulletin and I tried to true the pricking and bring it up to

[lace] Re: Le Pompe book 2 up in the archives

2007-04-05 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Apr 5, 2007, at 23:08, Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote: I didn't notice anybody mention this on the list! You're the first to have spotted it; that's why :) Book 2 of Le Pompe, which was not reproduced in full in the Dover edition Neither of LP books has ever been published by Dover; you

[lace] Re: Le Pompe patterns, shorter

2007-01-31 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Jan 30, 2007, at 9:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Orla) wrote: I'm really interested in seeing how you guys are doing this pattern without sewings since when I started working on this project about a year ago I didn't have a clue on how these verticals were done. Not sure which specific verticals

[lace] Re: Le Pompe laces

2007-01-30 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Jan 30, 2007, at 7:03, Leonard Bazar wrote: [...] the New Model Book [...] Admittedly, it is not clear from the illustration on the cover whether there is a pattern under the lace, but as there seems to be a pig not dog or cat on the floor, I don't think that signifies! I always thought

[lace] Re: Le Pompe patterns

2007-01-30 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:43, Debora Lustgarten wrote: My curiosity was also piqued by Orla's challenges with her piece and I redrew the woodcutting, designing the footside and bands dividing the arches from the band of X's with plain clothstitch bands, twisting the worker twice before the

Re: [lace] RE: Le Pompe

2004-05-27 Thread Jean Barrett
Hi Marie, The patterns in 'Le Pompe' don't look much like to-days patterns because they're not. They are some of the oldest patterns ever published and both the style of lace and the method of drawing patterns has changed over the last 4 centuries. If you get ho;d of a copy of the book already

[lace] RE: Le Pompe

2004-05-26 Thread Mary Robi
Hello Arachne's, In my thirst for lace knowedge, I've been reading the histories of lace and have seen mentioned in several places (web sites and books) the pattern book Le Pompe. I've seen a few patterns here and there, but not translated into anything that really looks like today's patterns

Re: [lace] RE: Le Pompe

2004-05-26 Thread Sue Clemenger
I don't recall anymore just exactly from whom I purchased my copy, although I suspect it was a bookseller at a reenactment event, but this is the info I've got: _Le Pompe, 1559: Patterns for Venetian bobbin lace_, by Santina Levey and Patricia Payne. Published in the UK by Ruth Bean, and

[lace] Re: Le Pompe

2004-05-26 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, There was a copy of Le Pompe on eBay recently. Not there anymore : ( Jane in Vermont, USA where I'll also be glad to send some rain to Australia! [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help,