I know I've kept you wondering for a couple of days but now I'll reveal the books that I bought at the book fair last Friday :-) Click on the small photos for a closeup so you can see the titles better.

Lots of poetry from some of my favourite poets, a little mythology and some textiles in this first photo. I'm currently enjoying reading Beowulf in the Anglo Saxon Poetry book. I can't wait to get to Malory :-)

On the far right you can see "Textiles by Woolman and McGowan" which was published in 1913. It has a very interesting illustration of someone using a walking wheel and using a stick to turn the wheel. I'll see if I can photograph some of the images to show you. I won't be scanning it because it's in perfect condition and I don't want to break the binding but I should be able to photograph some of the interesting images quite well.

"Patterns for Weaving by Jocelyn Burt" is one of the titles I was specifically looking for, so I was really pleased to find that for $1! The pulled thread embroidery book was a great find because I was also looking for interesting embroidery books and this one has really good illustrations.

In this pile are some interesting weaving books, among others. I haven't looked at the workbook of weaving yet, but the one on top of the pile "Handloom Weaving Technology" has some interesting info that I haven't seen in other books, including using a temple and the proper way to throw a shuttle. "Raffia Hats and Baskets" and "The Techniques of Bobbin Lace" were two specific books I was looking for. I was feeling pretty lucky to find anything I wanted, let alone so many specific titles! "Pattern Alterations" is a book on altering commercial sewing patterns to fit, which is info I've been looking for so I can make some things for Miss Binky. The Singer sewing book was published in 1954 so I might show you some pictures from that. It has some really nice line drawings of fashions from the era.

But wait, there's more!

A couple of items arrived from Ebay this morning :-)

Two fun Japanese craft books:

I love Japanese embroidery designs. I have a couple of Ondori books from the 1980's that have some lovely designs in them and this one is equally as adorable.

The other one is a felting book. I missed out on buying a book on needle felted dogs from the book shop a couple of weeks ago so I couldn't resist this book when I saw it. It also has some really pretty felt and fabric roses in it that I'm going to make.

The other auction that arrived was a daisy winder book from 1948.

There are a lot of copies of this available on Ebay at the moment so it only cost a couple of dollars. I bought it so I could scan the front cover and inside page and send it to the folks at handweaving.net so they can fill in the missing pages to the copy they have available to download for free at http://handweaving.net/DAItemDetail.aspx?ItemID=6758#