Dear Spiders
apropos of Salvador Dali's "Woman at a Window":
The author remarks on the oddity of a
spool of red thread sitting by the lacemaker's pillow when the lace is in
white. The author goes on to say that the red pricking, which I always
just
assumed was red to draw the viewer's eye to
> 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 s
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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 wh
