The lace world may be small, but it sure has long-reaching tentacles :)
I got the following URL a few days ago, but didn't get to read the
article until tonight (family visiting, deadlines looming, accidents
abounding and politics everlasting. Not to mention the mental effort
involved in join
In message , Tamara P
Duvall writes
Pique? We called it "pika", in Polish and it was quite popular when I
was a little girl. But, of course, what was popular in Poland didn't,
necessarily, "translate" into Brit scene...
According to Tootal, Pique has weft backing threads - the fabric sample
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On Aug 3, 2009, at 14:29, Jean Nathan wrote:
I was chatting with a friend reminiscing about what we used to wear in
the 1950s/60s. She mentioned a cotton fabric that we had summer
dresses made from which had raised oval or round "blisters" all over
it. Neither of us could remember what it w
That sounds almost, but not quite, like seersucker. That had stripes of a
wrinkled weave. I don't remember a fabric with 'blisters', though.
Margery.
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margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Hertfordshire, UK
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In the US, we called it seersucker. When my kids were little, I made
their summer pajamas from seersucker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seersucker
Lenore in SW Michigan, USA
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Jean
Nathan wrote:
> I was chatting with a friend reminiscing about what we used to wear i
I was chatting with a friend reminiscing about what we used to wear in the
1950s/60s. She mentioned a cotton fabric that we had summer dresses made
from which had raised oval or round "blisters" all over it. Neither of us
could remember what it was called. Anyone remember it and what it was
cal
How true, how true!
Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa
Fortune teller : "You will be poor and work hard until you are fifty."
And then?
Fortune teller: "You will get used to it!"
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