Greetings for a New Year Time to get ready to welcome a other new year.  Whatever great and wonderful things you accomplished in 2016, try for even great successes in 2017.  That is my only resolution, to do better.  I think that covers it all. Margy

                                        However you celebrate the holiday season I wish you peace.

B is for BURLAP Continuing with my alphabetical listing of textile terms (see my blog “ARALAC”, 11/12/16) today is the letter B. I have already written several “B’s”  :Batik                                                            Burkini                                                            Buttons                                                            Blackwork                                                            Burton (Virginia Lee) There are many other “B” textile references: buckram, brodade, Berlin work, but our subject is BURLAP….

Christmas giving Each year, around this time. I get requests for textile-related gift suggestions.  I usually suggest visits to thrift or antique shops for vintage table linens, hankies, hand crochet doilies, etc. This year I thought of another idea.  Why not visit your neighborhood bookstore (used books or new).  There are many magazines and books…

Thanksgiving Day “I am grateful for what I am and have, My thanksgiving is perpetual”                                Henry David Thoreau

A is for…ARALAC I decided to do an occasional series of textile themes in alphabetical order.  Taking inspiration from one of my favorite mystery writers, Sue Grafton, who uses the alphabet to title her books ( “A is for Alibi” etc.) I have already written several “As”:   Armor                                                             Aloha shirts                                                             Arpilleras                                                             Antimacassars…