[lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-18 Thread Karolina Jeffers
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:19:17 +1000 From: "W & N Lafferty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [lace] Fantasy flowers Just heard Rosemary Shepherd is away overseas for three months, so will not be answering mail direct. If anyone wants a copy of Fantasy Flowers, I know for sure Margaret at Kiparra (ph

[lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-19 Thread Karolina Jeffers
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:32:57 +1000 (EST) > From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ruth=20Budge?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers > > I'm not able to comment on these opinions, as I'm not familiar with either book > - - but I do think it is most unfai

Re: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-18 Thread Ruth Budge
I'm not able to comment on these opinions, as I'm not familiar with either book - but I do think it is most unfair to make accusations like this when Rosemary is out of the country and can't defend herself. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Karolina Jeffers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had a look at

Re: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-18 Thread Faye Owers
: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:32 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers I'm not able to comment on these opinions, as I'm not familiar with either book - but I do think it is most unfair to make accusations like this when Rosemary is out of the country and can't defend herself

Re: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-19 Thread Sue Babbs
I too have no knowledge either way, but am well aware that it is quite possible to come up with almost identical ideas to someone else, who lives in another country, whom you have never met and whose work or ideas you have not seen. I have done it myself, more than once, when designing things and b

Re: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-19 Thread Laceandbits
In a message dated 19/05/2004 16:38:55 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > What you are all saying is > that it is OK to take someone's work and use it for one's own material gain? > That isn't how I read the posts on this subject at all. What they do all seem to be saying is that

RE: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-19 Thread Panza, Robin
>>>If Rosemary made her first flowers in the late 70s then this predates the Novak ones by a considerable margin. But no-one would think that plagiarism has taken place the other way round, would they!<<< Frankly, that was my first reaction--that it could have just as easily been plagiarism in ei

Re: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-19 Thread Weronika Patena
Hi, I have nothing to say on the similar flowers, since I haven't seen either book, but one of the emails made me wonder about something else: > that we should respect the fact. I am quite sceptical at the suggestion that > two people design the same piece, maybe in Torchon but not in Free lace.

RE: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-19 Thread Patricia Dowden
-Original Message- From: Weronika Patena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:02 PM To: Karolina Jeffers Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers Hi, I have nothing to say on the similar flowers, since I haven't seen either book, but

Re: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-20 Thread Brenda Paternoster
On 20 May 2004, at 01:02, Weronika Patena wrote: Is Torchon really always designed on a square grid? Or any grid? And why? If it was designed without a grid, would it be a free lace too? Torchon is normally designed on a square grid although with the use of the computer as a design tool the squ