At 10:06 PM 9/1/05 -0400, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
Spider silk *is* the strongest fibre (per diameter) known, and very
light for its bulk. There are attempts to reproduce it but, so far as I
know, commercial production is not yet viable. I would suspect, if
enough of them were plied together,
Tamara wrote, in part:
Spider silk *is* the strongest fibre (per diameter) known, and very
light for its bulk. There are attempts to reproduce it but, so far as I
know, commercial production is not yet viable. I would suspect, if
enough of them were plied together, they'd do more than stop a
I actually recently cheaped out and bought thin wire and sanded down the
ends. Got me 0.75 mm needles (I guess about a 6/0 in US sizes) for next to
nothing with no shipping and a bit of sanding time.
It worked for me. :)
Heather -- who has planned a doiley on those needles in the very near
Ricki, it was Rumplestiltskin who did the spinning into gold but it was
straw, not spider webs LOL. If you figure out how to do it, however,
let us all know ROTFLMAO as I'm sure there would be more than a few
folks interested.
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Tamara wrote, in part:
Interesting!
I've lived in north Kent all my life and although that's not an
expression I use I knew immediately what anything to go to the snob
meant as I read your message. A snob is a shoemaker's last. My Little
Oxford dictionary only gives the 'aspiring to social elevation'
definition of snob but it
Forwarding this suggestion as I was unable to make my computer save the correct
address and I copied and pasted from the page I was on.
Janice
Janice I think you need to send this URL other wise it takes you
directly to the calendar page instead of the home page.
On Sep 2, 2005, at 3:32, Jean Nathan wrote:
The BBC had a series of programmes last week or so on the English
language
in the UK. It showed that language, especially among the young is
changing
very rapidly. If I listen to a conversation between 15 year-olds, I've
got
no idea what they're
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:34:12PM -0400, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
Polish, OTOH, still happily uses dual number (if in very few instances)
and group number, baffling foreigners who attempt to learn it... Which
is why Polish'll never become the international language of
communication :)
On Sep 2, 2005, at 19:38, Weronika Patena wrote:
Dual and group number, really? I can't think of any examples...
For the edification of everyone who doesn't speak Polish (but is
burning to learn its intricacies), and you... :)
Dual number:
Oko (eye, singular)
oczy (eyes,dual; used only in
i just wanted everyone to read what umbralace said about bobbin lace
and other type of laces. many of you were writing about how they
didn't think raised tallies and etc... were not allowed. also the
topic is not just flowers and geometrics, it is anything so long as it
looks festive. here is
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