[h-cost] OT: Some Comments
Costume Content: I will be good and add this first! While trying to find out when manufacturers stopped using aniline dye in textiles, I came across a lady Alice Hamilton who was most noted for her research in aniline textile dye, mercury and lead poisons, and other chemicals in the industry. She also wrote a book called Exploring the Dangerous Trades. I have found the book online for $52+. I just hate to purchase a book for this price to find out one answer. Also, Hamilton was the first woman on Harvard's faculty. Back to aniline, I have found it used in fabrics in the 1920s. Links: Alice Hamilton: http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/10.23/PublicHealthPio.html A good website about colorant history: http://www.colorantshistory.org/home.html The answer to my aniline question might be on this website but the website is vast. I tried to email the site owner but their link doesn't work. There are some tricks to growing cannas: 1. They love at least five hours of direct sunlight. 2. Deadhead them once a week. When you deadhead them, pull back the thin leave by the flower stalk, and cut (45 degree angle) the stalk as far down in the stalk as possible. This makes the new flower stalk stronger. The new flower stalk will appear in a week. 3. Beetles love to eat the leaves and flowers. Malatyon! (sp?) (FYI: This melts nail polish) 4. Plant them in the wettest part of your yard. The old-fashioned nickname for cannas is septic tank flowers. 5. Do not remove dead stalks until spring time. The stalks feed the tubers through the winter. I just cover mine with leaves to winter. Do not walk on the bed in the snow. Someone killed some of mine this way. My cannas come up in early May and bloom until the first killing frost around Oct. 15. They bloom all summer. 6. The tubers can be divided in the spring. Don't move after the first stalks appear. This IS my last message about tea: I promise! When you add sugar to cold unsweet tea, it dissolves slowly or not at all. This is wasting sugar. To make sweet tea, add the sugar while the tea brew is hot. Then add Stir it until the spoon does not draw. The sugar has melted. Then dilute the tea with cold water. I learned this from my Food Science course in college. This was one of my favorite college classes at University of New Mexico. You made things wrong, and then were taught the correct method. The point was to learn the chemical reactions. Try making a cake or biscuits with baking soda and another with baking powder. See we still need home ec. education in our lives! It just wasn't all sewing and etiquette. Tea that is cloudy is old tea and has a bad/rank flavor. The tannins have settled. Also putting tea in a frig will make it cloud sooner. I can't recall if it was Lipton or Lousianne who had a ad campaign about their tea not clouding as soon as other brands. In a restraunt, if we receive cloudy tea, we do not even taste it. We return it and drink water. We also make sure the manager knows about the problem. Tea is so inexpensive there is no reason for them to not make it fresh daily, even though they change you $2 for the drink. McDonald's has ads for a large sweet tea on their $1 menu. Oh well, I fore-warned you, we are serious ice tea drinkers. In Richmond, VA I have to ask for unsweet ice tea, otherwise, they will bring me sweet tea. I stopped liking sweet tea when my husband started adding two cups of sugar to our family's tea. Now we have his and hers tea pitchers! Penny Ladnier, Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites www.costumegallery.com www.costumelibrary.com www.costumeclassroom.com www.costumeencyclopedia.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] OT: Some Comments
5. Do not remove dead stalks until spring time. The stalks feed the tubers through the winter. I just cover mine with leaves to winter. Do not walk on the bed in the snow. Someone killed some of mine this way. My cannas come up in early May and bloom until the first killing frost around Oct. 15. They bloom all summer. Depends on where you live!! Check your garden zone as Cannas tubers will not survive the winter here (Iowa, border between zone 4 and 5) and in the spring you will just have mush. It's the main reason we don't plant cannas or dahlias; stuff just doesn't winter over well in our basement. OCC: local Walmart stores seems to be in a run of new $1.00 yard fabrics! I was trying really hard to use only stash on recent projects, but the siren call of cool stuff is too much for me. I found a *lovely* bolt of something (synthetic, I'm sure) that looks like navy blue nondescript whatever on the backside (the side showing in the stack) but when I folded it back to the right side -- OMG -- it looked exactly like hammered copper only not *quite* copper colored and not *quite* the color of gold. My daughter is only in 8th grade but she immediately said Prom Dress, Mom! so naturally I bought all 6 yards. For a dollar a yard, what the heck! In two trips to two different stores I bought about 20 yards of fabric. Denise Iowa ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Ooh, thanks Denise. THAT was my exciting costume news that I forgot to share! I was in our Norfolk, Va. Walmart last week, and also noticed that the $1.00 bolt table was restocked. I found my favorite sales lady and she said that indeed, they were keeping their fabric department and were replacing the racks that had been removed! YIPPPE! She said that everything was planned to go back to the way it used to be. So, I guess Walmart paid attention to the fact that they don't need to be upscale- that is not their target market. I'm not sure what is going on with the other service oriented departments that were under the knife, such as paint, automotive and fish. Fish, now that's one section I'd be very happy to see out of our Walmart. It's so bad I'm surprised PETA hasn't found out about it! ::Linda:: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Land of Oz OCC: local Walmart stores seems to be in a run of new $1.00 yard fabrics! I was trying really hard to use only stash on recent projects, but the siren call of cool stuff is too much for me. I found a *lovely* bolt of something (synthetic, I'm sure) that looks like navy blue nondescript whatever on the backside (the side showing in the stack) but when I folded it back to the right side -- OMG -- it looked exactly like hammered copper only not *quite* copper colored and not *quite* the color of gold. My daughter is only in 8th grade but she immediately said Prom Dress, Mom! so naturally I bought all 6 yards. For a dollar a yard, what the heck! In two trips to two different stores I bought about 20 yards of fabric. Denise ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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2 items, 1 of which is costume related, 1 of which is tea related: 1) Costume, or rather fabric: I want to thank all the folks who replied several weeks ago to my request for fabric store locations in California. I ended up at a couple Discount Fabrics with no finds, then went to Britex in San Francisco. Instead of silk I bought cotton. 4 pieces of white, lightweight, very fine, cottons (one satin batiste) and one primrose/jonquil yellow that looks exactly like the color of that early 19th cent. muslin gown with the brown trim that was posted here a couple months ago. Lovely! Now I'm at it again, this time to New York. I remember doing the Orchard St. shopping blitz many years ago, but now it seems the stores are more concentrated in the 30s. While I would love to spend the day browsing every shop, my daughters also want to do some non-fabric shopping. So, does anyone have a favorite, must-go-to, fabric store in NYC (where favorite is defined as you can get some silk or linen or fine cotton historically probable fabric at ridiculously low prices)? Oh, and feathers: ostrich plumes for bonnets? 2) Tea. Ah yes. I'm a northerner but my parents were southerners so I grew up on iced tea. We made it in a pot, steeped for 3-5 mins. as tea should be, sweetened while hot, poured over ice. I still make it that way, I just don't use as much sugar. Well, at restaurants I often ask how they make their iced tea. Many are proud to say that they don't use a mix but brew it from real bags and don't sweeten it. They are also proud to say that they make it nice and strong by brewing it overnight in the refrigerator. Ouch! So here's how I usually order iced tea at a restaurant: could you bring me a cup of hot tea, and two glasses completely filled with ice... :-) (Of course, that doesn't mean they will actually boil the water for the tea but what the heck--can't be too fussy!!) - Hope Penny Ladnier wrote: This IS my last message about tea: I promise! When you add sugar to cold unsweet tea, it dissolves slowly or not at all. This is wasting sugar. To make sweet tea, add the sugar while the tea brew is hot. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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In a message dated 8/21/2007 12:22:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I'm at it again, this time to New York. I remember doing the Orchard St. shopping blitz many years ago, but now it seems the stores are more concentrated in the 30s. * Yes, the upper 30s on the west side is full of fabric shopsmany, alas, with the same stuff out in front. But it can be fun to dig through the bolts. I've always wanted to shop at Mood, just to see what's there but I could never find the damn place! The last time I was in the city, my friend finally told me it not at street level. But then he said he's never found the door to go up!! LOL. As you can seewe really aren't trying very hard, are we? ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
