Word: threads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just lost a button off my coat. Have you a needle and thread...
White & Black Threads. Last week, for Jerusalem's Moslems, it was Ramadan, the Mohammedan month of fasting: for which the Koran commands the Faithful: "Eat and drink until ye can discern a white thread from a black by the daylight, and then fast strictly till night...
...Tanguay, once famed as vaudeville's brass-lunged I Don't Care girl, achieved 68 in her Hollywood bungalow, but she was "hanging on by a thread," said she-"I'm just waiting for it to come any time now." Long crippled, she had been living alone with three cats; now she has a day & night nurse. But she is still holding out for a $150,000 offer for her life story. That was Sarah Bernhardt's price, said she, and "in a way, I was as famous...
...poking through musty, 1,000-year-old shrouds dug up from coastal desert tombs, Bailey rediscovered lost weaving techniques (spinning had once been so ' fine-they sometimes used mouse's hair-that the shrouds ran thread counts of 250 to the inch). On burro trips in the 12,000-ft. sierra, Bailey uncovered the finesse of the ancient backstrap loom. In Andean fields, he rubbed wild-flower petals into his palm, watched the sweat precipitate streaks of true dye colors; he tested and proved 420 hues. In the Amazon highlands he found long-forgotten "workable" hardwoods...
...Aubusson, Beauvais and the world-famous Gobelin tapestry works in Paris, descendants of the medieval masters still labored. But their models were mostly second-rate Italian engravings and 18th Century boudoir muralists like Boucher and Fragonard. Twentieth Century tapestries used as many as 14,000 different hues of thread, took years to finish. But medieval ones, designed to be "frescoes in wool," used as few as 17 hues and were far simpler to weave...