......then I suppose it would be best to choose the trader from whom to buy your fabric very carefully. You must make sure he is very, very tall!!! Karen In a very hot Malta
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miriam Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 5:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [lace] Measurments Measurementsd are tricky. In Israel there are still places where they measure the yardage from nose tip to arm length. This might give you about a meter. Several years ago I bought some fabric in Jerusalem and they still used this system. Miriam in a very hot Arad, Israel >Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:36:16 -0400 >From: Tamara P Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [lace] Re: What is this? > >On Jul 28, 2007, at 17:52, bevw wrote: > > > An ell is about 45 inches. Does that help? > > It is an English measure. Perhaps there is a French measure which > > the wooden piece would represent. > > > > On 7/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Assuming it has anything to do with lace at all, could it be the > >> measuring device for an "ell" of lace, which was the increment in > >> which lace was sold. > >Some of the old measuring devices/terminology are thought-provoking. >Take, for example, a "foot"... When did it become 12 inches (ca 20cm)? >My foot is nowhere near that, though my husband's closer. In pre WWI >Poland, all textiles used to be sold by "an elbow" (lokiec) -- a >measure which was based on the length of an arm between the elbow and >the wrist. I never even knew how much that was but (have only met the >term in books), checking on the Polish version of Wikipedia, I found >that it varied -- from century to century and from region to region. >The shortest (and most common <g>) was 50.6cm (just short of 20 inches) >and the longest was 77.9cm (30.5 inches). > >So, I expect, the French would have had some such measure too, before >the French Revolution (which brought us the metric system and the >lovely decimals). >- -- >Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ >Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
