I’ve not been away or doing anything crafty over the past few months because my personal life has interfered with my crafting life - and my walks too. Still I do have time for a little catchup this week so here goes with day 1!!!
I do have a bit of a Monday moan about one Facebook tatting group that I’m in. No, not about the group itself but one member who posted that they thought that it was perfectly fine to copy tat people’s designs.
Now my stance (whether you agree or not) is that it’s acceptable to do that as a way of learning how patterns are constructed and if you really want the bother of doing it. BUT I think that should never be boasted about publicly and encouragement for others should never happen - it should be kept quiet about. As I see it it’s a pain and time consuming to copy tat but I guess some people think they’re saving money by not buying the pattern even though there are plenty of free ones available. I guess that they don’t realise that the money they’ve saved has cost them a lot of time when they could’ve been doing something else. I also doubt that their results lie as well as they should if they’d followed the proper pattern. A missing double can make a difference in some cases and techniques might be missed which would make the design flow better too.
Anyway, having said that the member then said they were going to take designer’s patterns and publish them in a book. I really, really wish she would as then the copyright/intellectual property laws would be fully tested worldwide!!! We could all then properly find out what can and can’t be done through a court of law.
The group moderator handled this post/person in a very calm and sensible way and hasn’t thrown her off the group. Well done to her as it’ll keep the discussion going and again, we’ll all learn from it.
