In a message dated 10/7/2009 4:36:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Exactly how we would produce nine jabots out of 50 states, I can't imagine! What did you mean? I suppose you would have to use sophisticated joining techniques :-) Alternatively, you could extend the project to include the judges of the United States Courts of Appeals. I seem to have missed Pene's original post, but having just visited Honiton where it was customary for people to make individual sprays and motifs, leaving it up to another to mesh them all together, you could have a motif made to symbolize each state and then join them together into the nine jabots. Unfortunately, 50 is not evenly divisible by 9, so that decisions would have to be made. One approach would be to include territories and protectorates like Puerto Rico, Guam, the American Virgin Islands and American Samoa. Another approach would be to group smaller states like Rhode Island and Delaware, giving some jabots more states, but not more territory or population. A third approach would be to omit states that no one volunteers for. By the way, the Speaker of the House of Parliament's jabot, made by Pat Perryman, is back in Honiton at the Allhallows Museum because the current Speaker eschews pomp. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
