Here’s your sign! Everywhere I look lately, I see the signs and I know their message well! No, not those kind of signs…, the kind that really get my blood pumping this time of year! “FALL FESTIVAL”, “AUTUMN ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR”, “PUMPKIN FESTIVAL”, “OKTOBERFEST”’, and the list goes on and on. Every sign is
“Linen” An ancient fabric made from flax, a tall, reed-like plant, with long fibers. The thread itself is spun from the cellulose fibers, that grow inside the stalk and is one of the first ever used to make cloth. The ancient Egyptians wore linen, over 5000 years ago. The fabric is both durable and wearable
Whether it be the delicate threads tied and twisted together, in graceful web-like masterpieces, surely to make any spider,want to step up their game; or intricate cut work skillfully stitched into dazzling threaded kaleidoscopes, lace can be used as beautiful embellishments, for pretty much everything. Lace adds a dash of romance, to anything it touches.
It was always one of my favorite activities in elementary school. Red, pink and white construction paper and paint, paper doilies, white paper bags, and tissue boxes, paste and rounded tip, little, scissors. There was also, a standard assortment of crayons, markers, colored pencils, a few staplers. Every year was a bit different, depending on