Re: [lace] Vintage pattern books

Best wishes Liz Pass - Original Message - From: "Gilian Dye" <gild...@gmail.com> To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, 18 January, 2018 12:20:30 PM Subject: [lace] Vintage pattern books At the moment I am particularly interested in the date of DMC Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux

[lace] Vintage pattern books

DMC is pretty tricky about finding dates. The one for the Dentelles aux Fuseaux I found on the first page, “Part 1: File size 16.6 MB PDF” at the bottom of the page over on the right. It shows the numbers 1124. This means November 1924. My little Encyclopedia has its numbers on the page

Re: [lace] Vintage pattern books

> On 18 Jan 2018, at 12:20, Gilian Dye wrote: > I'm wondering if any Arachne member knows of any way of dating the numerous > books and instruction leaflets published by DMC, Coats and other thread > manufacturers from the end of the 19th century? For DMC I was either told by

Re: [lace] Vintage pattern books DMC

Hi, Here are a couple comments from the Arachne archives and there are more. One at the bottom of page 2 of DMC search results. I seem to remember a long discussion of this with some more clues. Did Leonard take part in that discussion? Lots of years ago! If I find more info I'll send it along.

Re: [lace] Vintage pattern books

Oh, and I should have mentioned that they seem to have dates for most if not all of them. I didn't look at Coats etc. Nancy On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:29 AM, N.A. Neff wrote: > Hi Gillian, > > The Arizona archive (https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/ >

Re: [lace] Vintage pattern books

Hi Gillian, The Arizona archive ( https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books.html#D) gives its date as November 1924. I have no idea how reliable that information is but it's more than nothing! Nancy Connecticut USA On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Gilian Dye

Re: [lace] Vintage pattern books

Bad timing. Last year my husband and me killed the last bad-weather holiday in an energy museum in Mulhouse: center piece was the steaming engine of the former electric power plant of the DMC factories. I had no idea. Jo Gilian Dye schreef op 2018-01-18 13:20: I'm wondering if any Arachne

[lace] Vintage pattern books

I'm wondering if any Arachne member knows of any way of dating the numerous books and instruction leaflets published by DMC, Coats and other thread manufacturers from the end of the 19th century? Knowing the dates when patterns were published - for tatting, crochet, knitting etc as well as bobbin