Happy Easter if you celebrate. Chez boud it's happening tomorrow, when Handsome Son is free to visit and bring his share of our meal.
But first, to attend to a pressing issue: the proposal to rescind protection for Chaco Canyon, sacred space, against drilling and excavating. I've made my comment against the proposal to BLM. Please do likewise, no matter where you live. We only have one planet and five days to comment on this pressing issue.
Found online
There's also protectchaco.org
And last evening, in need of a project while I'm waiting for my rigid heddle, I was faffing around on Norah Crone Findlay's blog thinking about a lucet for making braid.
And ended up deciding I'm worth a real lucet, so I ordered one
She mentioned that its a form of spool knitting, just two prongs instead of the usual four. Lightbulb. I can use my cardboard and stick spool knitter as a lucet fork! I had been looking at lucets for ages, beautiful tools, but as usual wanted to make one. A while back I showed you a rather flimsy cardboard one I made.
Then last evening I tried a couple of cords on my steam driven card and stick version
Like this but maple. It's another of those ancient textile skills.
This is like mine on order.
And had you ever wondered about how before the advent of photography, fashion got around so wealthy people could order their bespoke gear? Dolls. Dressed in the fashion in miniature acted as physical samples. The same used to happen with ceramics and furniture, traveling samples.
Just fyi. They were used after WW2 to promote Dior's New Look, and even revived during the pandemic when salon shows were closed. After a good bit of searching I found they're about 27" inches tall. To learn more, go to the wonderful Haptic and Hue podcast or website.
Now I'm off to find my Easter tray of eggs and rabbits and cats. I'm late getting it out this year.
Here, it's official!
See the sample miniature Wedgwood cup and saucer. With Emily the cockatiel's eggs, decorated. I painted the other real eggshells, too.
Happy Easter Sunday, or Just Sunday!
Oh my - I can't imagine the dexterity it must have taken to create those highly-detailed miniature outfits, to say nothing about needing to have good eyesight. Thank you for the little tidbit of history! (and Happy Easter to you)
ReplyDeleteYes, the kind of skills needed in the industry of the time, amazing work.
DeleteOh, your Easter egg collection is so lovely. You have so many talents!
ReplyDeleteI just have plastic eggs in a basket so the kids can hide them over and over again and nothing will break. ;)
One of the things Handsome Son always brings at Easter is plastic eggs filled with little chocolate eggs! I'll never outgrow my choc eggs.
DeleteI didn't know about dolls' role in advertising clothes before photography! Thanks for educating me! Enjoy your lucet when it arrives. Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteI only recently found out about the dolls. I knew about furniture and dishes, but hadn't thought about clothes.
DeleteHappy Easter to you. Have a good little celebration with HS tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It will be nice
DeleteTrump is really doing Big Oil's bidding, isn't he? I just assumed people were aware of fashion because they saw it on others, and in newspapers and/or magazines. Weren't sketches or engravings used pretty commonly in print media, in lieu of photos? I didn't know about the doll thing!
ReplyDeleteThe doll idea is about high end bespoke design, and goes back to the Pharaohs! The workmanship was designed also to show firsthand the quality of work and fabric, very important if you were going to spend a king's ransom on a dress for court. It's about the fashion industry for millennia putting their best foot forward in a competitive world. Very interesting insider insight.
DeleteMore new to me. Dolls used to advertise fashion. Enjoy you day and tomorrow with HS.
ReplyDeleteSee answer to Steve -- I'm intrigued by the whole idea thank you, today is good though wet, and I'm hoping tomorrow will be nice
DeleteOld skills never die, they just get recycled - sorry, just a bit of nonsense that popped into my head.
ReplyDeleteI'd have the lucet simply for the pure beauty of it.
The beauty of the tool definitely swayed the decision. Just handling it will be great
DeleteWishing you a very happy Easter! I love your tray of eggs!
ReplyDeleteThank you, happy Easter to you and Rick. The eggs are pretty antique in their own right by now!
DeleteCongrats on buying yourself a thingy bobbit.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know about the dolls, always assumed it was illustrations.
Someone got me kinderschokolade eggs. Still. To this day I like putting the little toys together.
It's so hard for me to spend money on myself, this was a minor victory. Thingy bobbits rule. I'm glad your inner child still likes playing. I still like smoothing out and keeping the foil off little choc eggs.
DeleteI am constantly horrified on what big business is willing to whip our earth for - more profits now but absolutely no thought to our guardianship of the planet.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely Easter - I took a Lasagne to Mum and Dad's for Friday but not a lot of feast going on here. I am winnowing the freezer and there was a little lamb roast - V isn't eating anything requiring chewing atm and meat rarely anyway, Paris is going on a sleepover and 'Salina won't be coming over until Wednesday but I thought, beggar it, I will make MYSELF a special Easter roast (maybe)
Definitely treat yourself. You're worth it.
DeleteI really like your tray of eggs. Happy Easter 🐰 🐣 💓 to you.
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter! That and a few candles are my total decorations!
DeleteLiz do you have a link about Chaco buffer proposal? I searched four different ways and all I could find was articles about how how awful it is to have only a 7 day comment period, but no article contained a link!
ReplyDeleteI edited to add instructions I found online by asking how do I comment on the Chaco Canyon proposal. So maybe try that.
DeleteHappy Easter, Boud.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Celebrating today, Monday.
DeleteThe lucet looks interesting, I hope you make lovely braids with it. I remember travelling salesmen in vans with tiny samples of things he was selling, never furniture or fashionably dressed dolls though.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was small I was given a tiny armchair and sofa, salesmen's samples. My dolls sat in them.
DeleteI had no idea about the miniature traveling outfits (and furniture, too). Fascinating and ingenious. For this innocent, the term rigid heddle makes me laugh... or just wonder.
ReplyDeleteWeaving is full of language that you could interpret differently!
DeleteI’m always amazed how someone will come up with an answer to a problem.
ReplyDeleteWith my eyes these days I’d hate to have to sew those little dresses.
The dresses are beautiful but those faces are a bit creepy
They're sewn by people at the top of their craft.amazing workmanship.
DeleteDelightful tray of eggs. Im inspired by your other news to go and read about Chaco
ReplyDeleteMy reply vanished. Here goes again. The Chaco Canyon is preserved, sacred land, and this proposal to open it for drilling was rushed out over a holiday weekend with a comment period of seven days instead of the usual several weeks. They'll hear about it.
DeleteI must have gotten distracted before I commented on this one. I know I read the first part but the last part went right by me. I am excited for you to get your heddle.
ReplyDeleteDo you remember when Sears used to have miniature tents to show what the real ones would look like? I was FASCINATED by them. I wanted one so bad. Would have been perfect for Barbie camping trips.
And I have seen some of the miniature furniture in an antique store. Just beautiful.
Those miniatures are often mistaken for toys, but they're not miniature scale, so you can detect they're samples. A miniature tent, how cool is that. I guess not for sale though.
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