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Comment by Victoria Ong on July 16, 2018 at 3:44pm

http://www.tattingcorner.com/flowers-in-threads-needle-lace-for-beg...

My first book on needle lace techniques is out!

Comment by Lorelei Halley on January 13, 2014 at 3:46pm

Regarding copyright and posting photos or diagrams on this site -- simply copying any photo or diagram from another website, or from a book published after 1924 is prohibited. If it is something from another website, post a link. Links are always OK. Look just above the comment box. The leftmost icon is the link button.  Highlight a word in your comment, click the link button, paste the url of the webpage or of the diagram or photo into the slot. That way the originator of the diagram/photo is credited.  If you have reason to think that the online photo/diagram was posted into a blog by someone who doesn't own the photo, don't link to it or post it. If you can't find the original source, don't post it.

It is very frustrating that we cannot post single diagrams from books with valid copyrights. I do wish the "fair use doctrine" would regard this as acceptable. It is apparently OK for a university professor or schoolteacher to do this.  We are also teaching, but we don't have any official backing from any serious educational institution. The only way we can be sure is to get specific written permission from the author before we post anything.

If we find a whole book, with a valid copyright, posted online, and we post the link also, we are adding to the problem. So we shouldn't do that, even with attached statements that there is a copyright issue. 

My personal practice is that if it is my stuff, from my website, I lodge a formal complaint to the internet host. If it is from an author whose name I recognize, I send her/him a link so she/he is aware of the problem. If it is from somebody I don't know, I don't pass the link around, I just drop it into a black hole.

Comment by Teri Dow on January 13, 2014 at 2:26pm

Lorelei, just a thought. When a member finds a site of interest and wishes to post the details on this site and there is a current copyright issue, would there be any mileage in highlighting this fact somehow so that everyone recognises the status? I was thinking along the lines of perhaps of italics or flagging it in another colour etc. Are we allowed to have the website on this site for reference purposes only?

Comment by Lorelei Halley on September 24, 2013 at 2:02pm

Yes, exactly so.

Comment by Selena Marie Joosten on September 24, 2013 at 6:31am

That explains it beautifully, so I gather the actual stitch to hold the thick thread down is a normal up through the fabric and over the thicker thread and back down into the material again.

Comment by Lorelei Halley on September 23, 2013 at 1:52am

Here are some places where it is explained, in the context of ordinary embroidery.

http://www.inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/couching.html

http://www.needlework-tips-and-techniques.com/couching-stitch.html 

You just lay the thick thread on the fabric.  Then with ordinary sewing thread in a sharp pointed needle, bring the needle up through your sandwich from back to front.  Take a short stitch, just to hold the thick thread in place and put the needle back into the sandwich from front to back.  The short stitch just holds the thicker outline thread in position.  The embroidery explanations tell you about taking the thick thread through the fabric.  But in needle lace you don't do that.  the thick thread never pierces the sandwich, but just lies on top, held in place by the thick couching stitches.

Comment by Selena Marie Joosten on September 22, 2013 at 9:03pm

As I would like to do a different kind of needle lace other than Puncetto, I thought it would be a good idea to do your tutorial with Book mark 1, could you tell me what this ''couching" stitch is and how to apply it. I understand the pattern preparation and have done a print of the 2 diagrams you suggested and am all ready to get started.

Comment by Lorelei Halley on September 9, 2013 at 2:50pm

She is a member.  Her diagrams are so neat and clear!

Comment by Selena Marie Joosten on September 8, 2013 at 7:11pm

A link to a tutoral, it may already be here but i though the picture were very helpful even though its in Italian.

http://sitakrajka.blogspot.co.nz/p/puncetto-valsesiano.html