Books,book, books!

I have just finished my annual incarceration in an exam hall. It gets shorter each year as I get older and the economy gets weaker!

This year together with a good friend, I watched over the mature students doing distance learning courses. This is always a pleasure as some of them haven't sat am exam for decades and really appreciate a friendly face!

5 days, 45 hours gives lots of time to glance down at a book, and I had stocked up!

The first one to be read from cover to cover was the Travelling book, generously travelling round the world courtesy of it's owner Fox.

In case you don't know about it, the travelling book is

Let's Tat

by

Angeline Crichlow.

You can read about Angeline on Ambitatterous's blog, it's a great report.

The book arrived together with a pretty bookmark from Gina.

A self published book, one of a hundred copies produced by Angeline in 1979......my first  thought was it's a thesis.

I have seen so many theses for masters and doctorates from this era....the time before students could produce their own computer generated pages with the diagrams and photos embedded in them ready to be printed and bound.

But Angeline didn't have all these desk top printing facilities. This book is amazing...so many pages all typewritten.....so difficult to correct ones mistakes as Fox has shown.

All the black and white photos must have been attached to the pages where she wanted them to be and then the pages had to be numbered, and the whole thing xeroxed maybe....photocopying was in it's infancy.

Then like a thesis produced today it was sent to a bookbinder....an expert himself in quality production. The gold foiled letters are so wonderful.

Angeline you created a masterpiece. It must have taken a long time to produce a hundred copies.

It was a wonderful read, thank you so much Fox. It is packaged and ready to send on to the next name on the list.

I had been saving another treat,

Heather Lickley's book on the life of Elgiva Nicholls.....the first thing that I learned was how to pronounce her name...it rhymns with Godiva!

researched by Heather funded by a Ring Of Tatters Bursary, it is a fascinating read.

The book can be ordered direct from Heather herself.

I had also saved the latest newsletter of The Ring Of Tatters

Another great read.

Last but not least pattern book that a friend had ordered for me from the States.

I had seen so many of the designs tatted by lace Loving Librarian that it was a must have. An inexpensive little book with lots of pretty designs to tat.  Maybe for Christmas!

I haven't been able to or in the mood to blog for a couple of weeks so it's good to be back in the mood.

I should have been enjoying the delights of Prague today but with the volcanic ash cloud drifting backwards and forwards with the wind together with a cabin crew strike, and our friends canceling, we decided to quit while we were ahead! So no great gecko photos this time.

More soon....even tatting....maybe.