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The Complete Book of Wreaths: 200 Delightful & Creative Designs
“This book contains 200 awe-inspiring wreaths, each with a full-page color photograph and assembly instructions. Celebrate a baby’s birth with a wreath of wooly pampas grass and a toy lamb. You can even celebrate your own special interests with a wreath of feathers or sheet music. In addition to new ideas and inspiration, you’ll discover that wreath making is easy for beginners and experts alike.”— Crafts.
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256 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 2001
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October 30, 2012
So I did a few days of combing through the fine print of the book and another, Rob Pulley's The Wreath Book. I had to do some sleuthing because I found more than a few repeat wreathes between the two books. Considering one was published twenty years beforehand, I thought I had a serious case of plagiarism on my hands.
It turns out things were and are not so clear cut. Apparently, Pulley had outside designers for his wreathes, and did not do his own. On the same token, Rankin cited in a tiny font that his book pulls from a number of other wreath books, namely Pulley's 1988 classic, The Wreath Book. Try not to read too much sarcasm in there.
Conclusion:
Fred Gaylord was cited in both works.
Plagiarism averted.
What were the wreaths that created such a predicament?
Well, let's name a few!
Ribbon-Wrapped Wreath
pg 56 Rankin
pg 68 Pulleyn
Trio
(Julianne Bronder was not cited in both)
pg 122 Rankin
pg 102 Pulleyn
Greenery Garland
pg 142 Rankin
pg 69 Pulleyn
Evergreen Wired to Metal Instructions
pg 36 Pulleyn
pg 23 Rankin
Potato Wreath
(Cynthia Gillooly not cited for both)
pg 94 Pulleyn
pg 247 Rankin
Precious Pinecone Wreath
(Chris Rankin not cited in both)
pg 58 Rankin
pg 63 Pulleyn
Just for Fun
pg 232 Rankin
pg 123 Pulleyn
It's not even that these are just the same wreaths, but the exact same photographs were used too. It makes this ultimately a "wreath greatest hits", so to speak. Needless to say, I was more than a little disappointed when I saw that these weren't done for this project.
It turns out things were and are not so clear cut. Apparently, Pulley had outside designers for his wreathes, and did not do his own. On the same token, Rankin cited in a tiny font that his book pulls from a number of other wreath books, namely Pulley's 1988 classic, The Wreath Book. Try not to read too much sarcasm in there.
Conclusion:
Fred Gaylord was cited in both works.
Plagiarism averted.
What were the wreaths that created such a predicament?
Well, let's name a few!
Ribbon-Wrapped Wreath
pg 56 Rankin
pg 68 Pulleyn
Trio
(Julianne Bronder was not cited in both)
pg 122 Rankin
pg 102 Pulleyn
Greenery Garland
pg 142 Rankin
pg 69 Pulleyn
Evergreen Wired to Metal Instructions
pg 36 Pulleyn
pg 23 Rankin
Potato Wreath
(Cynthia Gillooly not cited for both)
pg 94 Pulleyn
pg 247 Rankin
Precious Pinecone Wreath
(Chris Rankin not cited in both)
pg 58 Rankin
pg 63 Pulleyn
Just for Fun
pg 232 Rankin
pg 123 Pulleyn
It's not even that these are just the same wreaths, but the exact same photographs were used too. It makes this ultimately a "wreath greatest hits", so to speak. Needless to say, I was more than a little disappointed when I saw that these weren't done for this project.
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