Hi Zuzana, I saw this link last weekend on one of my other lists.
http://www.gracefulembroidery.com/index.html
They were advertising a new design collection of celtic knots. I don't know if
this is what you are looking for as I could not find a pic at your link. I
have never purchased any
Ann (almost a neighbor),
Thank you for your kind words!
Yes, finished! Hurrah! Though I think I won't wear the gown to go shopping
as I originally threatened as the train is such a bother (to myself and
others). Better for promenading sedately in book stores or less trafficked
places...
The dress diary is very interesting. I've been flirting with a gown from one of
the Albert books for some time and may now get up the nerve to try it.
BUT the most enjoyable part of your site is the
What-kind-of-romance-novel-heroine-are-you quiz. I took it in the spirit of fun
and discovered
You can't make a fuchsia into a lighter pink, you''ll have to go darker, or
at least toned down.
I would try some brown dye on it. Start with a smaller amount--you can
always re-dye darker, if you need to.
Why don't you just put in a label that says DRY CLEAN ONLY?
Kim
-Original
Hi H-Cost!
In grade school, I was told that pictures like this
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/womena6.jpg showed ancient
Egyptian women with perfumed wax or fat on their heads, which melted
over the course of the evening, and smelled good.
It recently came to mind again, and I've
In a message dated 9/16/2008 12:54:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Experiment, Experiment, Experiment. ;-)
Indeed!
I can tell you if you dye a fuchsia fabric with a plumb color (purplish
blue) you get a great concord grape purple! Anyway
If a raspberry
Hi,
maybe there´s something in The artifice of
beauty by Sally Pointer? I didn´t have the
chance to read it yet, but at first glance it looked most promising.
Hanna
At 20:00 16.09.2008, you wrote:
Hi H-Cost!
In grade school, I was told that pictures like
this
monica spence wrote:
It is called a scent cone. It is seen all over Egyptian art. It was wax with
a scent. It did melt, giving off a pleasant smell. (Kind of an Airwick solid
on your head.)
Monica
Fashion History teacher
Right -- that's what all the web sources and various books seem to say,
I don't think you'll find anything to confirm that it's a wax cone; while
I've read that too, I've also read discussions in KMT, A Modern Journal of
Ancient Egypt (which tends to take a mixed scholarly/popular approach; the
articles are all footnoted) noting that the idea of what the cones is
