Dear Amy,  (Everyone asking for help - please give a hint of where you are. Replies to questions like this need to be customized by location. You could be in Iowa, Israel, or India!)  It is probable that Lorelei's many links will be your very best resource. She has voluntarily spent years doing a tremendous amount of research, for which there can never be enough thanks from us.  However, you did ask for a list of lace books in the Subject line of your memo.  I am guessing that you are in New York State, where you will find local lace guilds and groups that may have lace libraries for members. There is a comprehensive lace book library at Cornell that you can access if you are near that. If you know what you want, you can use Interlibrary Loan at any local public library. They will obtain a book from the nearest library that has it. There may be a fee to defray associated costs. You probably used Interlibrary Loans in college/university, and are familiar with it.  If you belong to International Organization of Lace - the not-for-profit American national lace guild - you can borrow from their library. You can look to see holdings (by author, or by subject) at https://internationalorganizationoflace.org/Library/library.html without being a member.  If you are curious about a book, you can put the Author's name or Title in the Search box of the Arachne archives and maybe find a review and comments. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/index.html  You can also Search by a subject and find what we have written. You are a bit far from Maine, but I have what is probably the largest private library of books (4,000+) about lace/embroidery and related subjects (costumes, history, etc.) in the world. Lace and embroidery have traveled together throughout history, so sometimes what you seek will be in an embroidery book. There are over 1,000 lace titles here. I do not loan books, but if a book is here, it can be beneficial to use my expertise of having read everything at least once and usually knowing what to recommend. My inventory is by Author, then Title, etc.  I am a long-time subscriber to Maine Antique Digest, and that sometimes gives an advantage when someone is interested in old laces. Search Maine Antique Digest in the Arachne archive for examples.  Thanks to members of our lace community, Lace books no longer under copyright have been scanned and can be read in full. Skip past listings of articles, and you will get to Authors of books published before 1923. http://www..cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html  Amy, as a Gmail user, you will not receive my AOL postings, unless you ask to be on my bcc list. Apparently, they are not on "speaking terms" via the free Arachne server that we use (very old equipment/software).  Suggest you print this for future reference.  Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center ----------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 5/25/2018 5:32:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:  Is there a "master list" of lace books floating around somewhere that I could access?  I've found a couple in my obsessive antique shopping, but some guidance would be lovely.  Thanks, Amy
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