I've been quite curious about Barbara Russell's book, Celebrating My Journey in Needlepoint after I saw mention of it on her website in late spring.
http://barbararusselldesigns.com/
Janet Perry has obtained a copy and written a review for those of us who haven't had the chance to see it yet. It sounds as if this is an interesting view of a personal stitching journey and that it documents needlepoint designs common in the 20th Century. Janet says it isn't inspirational, but isn't that what Blog and the Internet in general are for? LOL
http://www.nuts-about-needlepoint.com/celebrating-my-journey-in-needlepoint-book-review
Seriously, we should all think about a photo album of our stitching journey.
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The Skinner Sisters Do Copyright
Labels:
blackwork,
copyright,
counted thread,
Skinner Sisters
Any serious student of blackwork will have run across The Skinner Sisters' fine website dedicated to this art. I haven't visited the site in a while so I was surprised to find that Linn Skinner's put her fine mind to work understanding copyright and copyright violations and the impact they are having on charted design authors.
http://www.skinnersisters.com/copyright/
There's a lot of information about copyright law (the U.S. version) and also a list of roughly 49,500 pages of free charts found online. These come from major publishers and I doubt many of them were put online by their authors.
You can see the impact copyright theft has had on cross stitch designers just by looking at this list. I think we are very fortunately that painted canvases are harder to steal but I am now worried about my favorite counted canvaswork designers. Can they survive among the thieves for long?
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
http://www.skinnersisters.com/copyright/
There's a lot of information about copyright law (the U.S. version) and also a list of roughly 49,500 pages of free charts found online. These come from major publishers and I doubt many of them were put online by their authors.
You can see the impact copyright theft has had on cross stitch designers just by looking at this list. I think we are very fortunately that painted canvases are harder to steal but I am now worried about my favorite counted canvaswork designers. Can they survive among the thieves for long?
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
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