Laila's Christmas List '98

Books

• How to Write Your Name in Kanji ~ $10.00 in foreign language section
  
• NTC's Dictionary of Japan's Cultural Code Words no ISBN, ~$16 in foreign language section
  
• Historic Textile Patterns in Full Color: 212 Illustrations by Friedrich Fischbach, Dover $14.95 in craft section
  
• Japanese Design Motifs Matsuya Company, Dover $10.95 in craft section
  
• The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0 ~$60.00 0-201-48345-9 ISBN book and CD, buy direct from www.unicode.org and get free shipping
  
• The Techniques of Japanese Embroidery Shuji Tamura,The Japanese Embroidery Center 1998, no ISBN, $24 in craft section
  
• Miniature Bobbin Lace Roz Snowden, 1 86108 086 7 ISBN, $15, in craft section
  
• Any Battlestar Galactica book by Richard Hatch in paperback, in sci-fi section
  
• A book that explains the legal use (in understandable language) of copyrighted designs and charts for craftpeople to use for profit; bonus if it also explains what craftpeople should copyright, how to get a copyright (and cost), and how that protects your designs
  
• A book that explains the significance of symbols, flowers, and animals on Japanese kimonos
  
• A book that teaches Japanese Kumihimo braiding techniques