Gentle Spiders,
So... I was reading The Washington Post (Outlook section) yesterday --
an article on Afghanistan -- and came to a photo which nearly knocked
me off my chair. A bunch of women with children in a bus? car?, all of
them wearing those veil-like "thingies" (I hesitate to say "schmatas",
so as not to offend, but can't remember the real name) on their heads.
These weren't the "relaxed" -- and sort-of pretty -- version, which
covers all the hair, but leaves the entire face exposed. They weren't
even the more "prim-and-proper" ones, which cover the forehead and
everything from the nose down, leaving only the eyes exposed (a bit
spooky, especially if black)...
No, these were "the whole nine yards" jobs: a tightly-fitting cap, with
a shoulder length+ veil attached *all around*. The veils were heavily
gathered/pleated in the back, but stretched accross the face in the
front. Or so it seemed -- on two of the women (I'm guessing <g>)
pictured, we could only see the back of the head. The caps look as if
they have lace applied to both the crown and to the band which connects
the crown and the veil, though it may be embrodery.
What really took my breath away was the picture of one woman who had
her "face" to the camera... There, we could see the un-gathered part of
the veil. And, in the middle of it, about where the eyes and nose would
be, there was an insert, shaped more or less like this:
<___>
but with a corresponding parallel line on top as well as at the bottom.
And the entire insert was... criss-crossed with bars and holes.
Definitely either pulled-thread or drawn-thread work... perhaps not
even an insert, but worked directly into the veil. I've never seen
anything like this. *Really* spooky, even though not black.
Makes one wonder if that's where the next step for fashionable lace
lies :)
Unfortunately, I cannot give a link. The WaPo is stingy with on-line
pictures and, although I have located the article, it was text-only. I
can send a scan of the photo from the newspaper but, although it takes
a lot of e-space, you still can't see any of the decoration on the caps
-- only pixels. But the front insert is fairly clear, so, if anyone's
interested...
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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