I should have said "comparatively" cheap - saffron is something I buy when I
am in Spain, because it is still a lot cheaper there than in England. I
know it has always been a labour intensive crop, but if you could use the
residue to dye card, that sounds more like thrifty lacemakers!
I take your point about the thread - its was just an idea, and I havn't
worked enough with metallics
to know about not rolling it up. It's clearly a fanciful picture, not an
accurate one. Not enough bobbins, for a start!
----Original Message Follows----
From: eva schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bridget Marrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [lace] Reddish Spanish prickings
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:51:23 +0100 (CET)
> I'd not heard of this use of saffron before. It
> could only have been common
> in countries like Spain where saffron is cheap.
Just had to come out of lurkdom for a moment - saffron
is not cheap in Spain. I spent some days eight years
ago with a family who picked the flowers, separated
the stamens and did the roasting. They then sold it
to the dealer for 1 kilo at 100.000 pesetas - about
600 Euros. The price varies from year to year
according to the crop.
They used - then, at least - what was left of the
flowers to make the dye for the prickings, only to
show me how, because yellow cardboard is now used in
La Mancha.
Greetings from Spain, Eva
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