I was able to find something promising on Archive.org which has free pdf
downloads.
Letters and Journals of Mrs. Calderwood of Polton: From England, Holland
and ... byMargaret Steuart Calderwood, Alexander Fergusson
Natalie,
You provided a delightful topic to accompany my morning tea.
A search on "silk d'alais" provided some interesting results.
Google Books has a report of the House of Commons on the silk industry of
France.
All items on Antiques Roadshow are available to look at on the website.
Here's what a search on "Assuit" turned up. Very nice indeed.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/20/tucson-az/appraisals/egyptian-assuit-shawl-ca-1920--201501T04
Thanks for sharing Susan.
Judy
on the Mississippi in
I have used decals for fingernails which I purchased at the dollar store.
These worked well. However, I went on a recent hunt for more and it appears
that all of the designs are now peel and stick plastic rather than decals.
These to not work well at all and are much thicker. So I will have to
I loved all the goodies I received. Lacemakers are such a delight!
I've never seen such tiny hair bands. I do keep some in my lace tool box to
group bobbins, but mine are more than twice as large.
I also keep small safety pins on hand to link the spangles of two bobbins
when I am working in a
It takes time and air. We had a used book that I was unable to use - I'm
very sensitive to smoke.
This was an expensive volume with many coated pages and color pictures but
out of print.
I laid it open on a stool in front of a fan. I flipped the pages to a new
spot every time I passed.
