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...unknown." Since 1452 the cloth has been the property of the Italian House of Savoy. On special occasions it was exhibited to the faithful, but in the 19th Century, at least, it seems to have appeared not as a painting but as a soiled and damaged piece of white linen...
...catalogue paper was handmade in England; fine old castoff linen shirts from Italy provided its basic rag stock. The ink, pure lampblack carbon and linseed oil unadulterated by modern aniline dyes, was specially ground in Germany in 1928. A new type font was designed by Jan van Krimpen, cast in The Netherlands. Two three-ton hand presses were shipped from England to Pittsburgh for the actual printing...
...particular," Baltimore's Gentleman-Merchant Alexander Brown advised his sons early in the 19th Century, "but also to have the appearance of correctness." From the day he arrived in Baltimore from Ballymena, Ireland in 1800, spectacled, respectable Alexander Brown followed his own advice. He set up an Irish linen business, gradually built a fleet of eleven sailing ships, became a merchant banker. By the time he died in 1834, Alexander Brown had much more than an appearance of correctness: he had $2,000,000 as well...
...JAMES A. LINEN...
...Louisiana-born, Harvard-bred Speed Lamkin knows a lot about the decline and decay of the old plantation set, who made small talk while energetic commoners made big money and powered the New South. In his first novel, Tiger in the Garden, Lamkin boldly washes some old sectional linen in public, as if it hadn't already been scrubbed by the Caldwells, Weltys and Faulkners...