Originally Posted by
Rosyhf
An idea, technique or a method can not be copyrighted. What is copyrighted is the writing of it. You can write it in another way to explain it, in your words.
Elenore can only copyright her instructions, not the technique the chain piecing in itself. The same applies to strip piecing, which is a techinque.
not to mention that chain piecing has existed since 10 minutes after the first machine got treadled...factories have done this forever and my mother taught me when i was 10.... 55 yrs ago...heaven knows how long she (and probably her mother) had been doing it...