Wrapping Up 2020
Considering that I stayed home most of the year, I didn’t get that much done — but those things I did finish brought me a sense of comfort during this crazy year. Big… Continue reading
Category Archive: Textiles
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A Thrift Store Find
Standing unsteadily on a shelf of unwanted Christmas decorations, this poor old doll caught my eye. From the front, his clothes were in shreds, but in the back, the fabrics were unfaded. For… Continue reading
New Goods! New Goods! An Ohio Storekeeper’s Inventory from 1838
Earlier this year, I typed up the 1847 inventory of Jacob Weaver, a storekeeper in Knox County, Ohio; this week I worked on the 1838 estate inventory of another storekeeper from the same… Continue reading
A Sampling of Pexels Free Stock Photos
I read the WordPress blog post today, about a library of free stock photos to add to posts. Here are a few that came up for the search word, “textile.” (Their credits come… Continue reading
Textile Inventory from 1844
In going through the old papers from my husband’s family, I have come across an inventory from 1844, from his great-great-great-grandfather’s estate. I don’t have the original, I am working from a Xerox… Continue reading
Public Domain Day
For Public Domain Day, I am bringing you some lovely textiles from our own Museum of Fine Arts Houston. One thing I really love about their online collections, is that they put the… Continue reading
Word of the Year for 2018
As I sat down to plan for this coming year, my Word of the Year popped into my head unbidden, and it was “Quality.” When it comes to quilts, I have always loved… Continue reading
Sailmaker on Board
If you had asked me, “When did the Age of Sail end?” I would have thought about it a while, guessing that since steamboats were invented about 1803, sailing ships must have been… Continue reading
A Compendium of Sail Information
The most interesting thing to me about the Age of Sail is the textiles used to make the sails. But as I have tried to find out more about them, I have been… Continue reading
Beautiful Diversity
I usually stay away from politics and current events in this blog, but with the events in Charlottesville, I want to directly state my opposition to the whole idea of white supremacy. I… Continue reading