Moved to Chat because my reply wanders afar:
On Lace, Jean Nathan wrote:
Can those of you who are used to the kind of heat and
humidity that we're experiencing give any tips on making
lace in this weather, ie how do you stop your hand
perspiring?
Linen clothing, slightly damp, works for garden work and
cycling.
Last Tuesday, I climbed a hill to knitting class (where I
was the only one who showed up), tried to settle in, found
my hands too wet to handle the yarn, trotted to the ladies'
room and washed my face and arms in cold water, which
stopped the sweating. But I don't know as that will work if
you start sweating sitting still.
I was at Purdue one summer when the *low* was 80F for the
whole session -- rumor quoted one foreign student as saying
"I had no idea that Indiana was tropical" -- I never passed
a water fountain without running ice water on my forearms,
and that helped a great deal. I was also staying in a dorm
with old-fashioned down-the-hall facilities -- ever so much
more convenient than the "modern" habit of installing one
home-style bathroom for every four students -- so I took a
shower every time I entered or left the dorm. That would
draw enough heat out of my body to hold me for the one-mile
run to the classrooms.
Oh, man, was I jealous of the girls from India!
I couldn't understand why none of the nuns were passing out
in habits that had more fabric in the hem than I was wearing
total. Could be that the medieval peasants the habits were
imitating knew a little something. (This was before habits
were modernized.) 18th-Century re-enactors do say that they
are more comfortable in their linen shifts and petticoats
than the Gentle Guests are in their shorts.
Some of the students put tubs of ice water under their desks
to keep their feet in while studying. This might work for
making lace.
The "personal misters" mentioned on the Lace list sound like
the cheap plastic "oil-o-pump" I bought at a
kitchen-gimcrack store. It was intended to make your own
cooking spray, but it wouldn't spray oil worth a nickel, so
I cleaned it out and moved it to the laundry room to dampen
ironing. It also works fine for watering freshly-seeded
cat-grass pots and dispelling static electricity, but I
never thought of putting an ice cube in it.
--
Joy Beeson
http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/
http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange
http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather)
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
where we got two inches of rain yesterday. What happened to
the annual drought? (Ah, well, it's good for the corn.)
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