Dear Arachnids, I found this article from The New Yorker quite interesting and wonder how it might relate to our lace threads....?
Vicki in Maryland The end of Egyptian cotton The New Yorker News Desk A series of political and climatic upheavals has yielded diminishing quality in a commodity once believed to be the best in the world. Dockworkers loading sacks of Egyptian cotton onto boats in Alexandria, in 1922. The fame of Egyptian cotton is much like that of Italian olive oil or French wine, where provenance is a shortcut for quality. Photograph from National Geographic Image Collection / Alamy In 1994, Ayman Nassar, an Egyptian-American who grew up in California, briefly Read the full story Shared from Apple News - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
