In a message dated 7/16/2005 6:29:08 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > >In an internet search in which I am attempting to identify a > >piece of lace > >to be included in my class, I ran across the following > >web-site which sells > >antique lace vestments. They report the news that a Point de > >France lace alb > >bottom has sold this year for $40,000, a record,. The site > >also contains the > >helpful suggestion that priests are now taller than they used > >to be and it might > > be best not to buy an antique lace bottomed alb, but rather > >to buy an > >antique lace alb bottom and have your own supersize alb > >constructed locally for > >the priest in question. > > > >_http://www.french-yesterdays.com/alsurmor.html_ > >(http://www.french-yesterdays.com/alsurmor.html) > > > >Devon > > > Wow, what beautiful lace -- Thanks for the information, Devon! It's inspiring to see such lovely, intricate lace is still being bought and used in such settings (presumably), as it was in past centuries. Speaking of lace and religion I was researching the other day, and I came across a reference to lace in the Old Testament -- or so it appears, though it's not entirely clear to me what is being described here -- if anyone can clarify, please do! Exodus 28: "And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty . . . And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel . . . And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial . . . And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD" (vv. 2, 9, 12, 36-38). Ricki T Utah USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
