Many tatters will welcome this list of titles of Tatting Books in the Public Domain. The books and magazines are archived in PDF files so you will need Acrobat reader which is free. Instructions are on the site.
I was browsing what titles have been added in September to the Digital Archive of documents. Half way down the page the September 1919 issue of Needlecraft Magazine are available in two PDF files Also available in three parts is a correspondence course written in 1952 by Baumann and Heary …
The Gutenberg Project has a copy of William Holmes 1984 book A Study of the Textile Art in its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament. This classic has an emphasis on form in textiles particularly basket weaving.
New to the Gutenberg Project is a new free ebook Jacobean Embroidery by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands for download.
Johannes Itten as his colour theories in the Art of Color is one of the key influences in my ideas about colour. In fact I would say he is my grand master as Itten is a colour genius. As a student we had his Elements of color as a text …
Well yesterday we ended up going out to lunch. Since it is Jerry’s birthday on Monday I wanted to buy him a really nice fountain pen and since things like pens are so personal I wanted him to choose it. We made an afternoon of it and took in a …
The pigments used to illustrate seven Gutenberg Bibles have been identified by British researchers. Since the bibles are around 600 years old these findings will inform curators as to how best to approach preservation.
