Just realised what the cords are. It's how the brim was finished - instead of working the ends of the grass back in to keep it from unraveling,...
The ebay auction hat is woven from bamboo or palm leaves or something similar, while the hat with the hole was woven from something similar to (...
As both a former milliner and weaver, I think the hole is incidental, though it would certainly aid in keeping the head cool. What caused the hole...
Interesting. There are 21,478 offers for personal services posted right now. Ebay has evolved quite a bit. They used to be much more restrictive...
You've probably heard it before, but protect yourself if you do craigslist. My city has had 2 seperate incidents of murder (of 3 people) in the...
No, but thanks for sending that - interesting to see the other half of the story. She owned it after my family, who never lived there. My mother...
Ooops - sorry - learning curve moment. The bay window in the house I was born in. [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] In the theme of family and horses - These are all of my grandmother, who grew up at Rosebud Reservation in South...
What a heart breaking story! Did your grandparents use newspapers on the wall too? It helped a lot. In grade school, I lived on a former Southern...
That is quite a horse! I had to google white draft horses. It might be a Boulonaise aka/white marble horse. Your grandfather was in good company...
Lucille.b, Have you smelled the bag? I find odor to be one of the most reliable measures of age in textiles and wood. If the rings are made of...
When 'fun' is meanspirited, it's not fun but simply mean. Based on the responses, I wasn't the only one here who thought so. Neither did ebay...
Hi spirit-of-shiloh - there were comments before yours that suggested honey or jelly might be the purpose but I was just musing and had no one in...
Thank you for your welcome, komokwa. I am certainly not here to push buttons, and a little confused about why my response would have done so. One...
It's not a Shaker chair in part because some of the rungs were turned with decorative details. It's rabbit eared country spindle back with that...
I'm betting it is earlier than 1970's because it was not finshed with a thick layer of varathane, but one of the products (shellac, etc) that was...
BTW, I believe the blue cord is new, but the rings are not. The lining is more of a giveaway as to the age than the outside is, since people do...
This was a very popular style bag in the Edwardian through arts & crafts periods. As for the pattern, I'd say it's Checkoslovakian or there...
It's a wicker backpack. It's beautiful. I agree with all_fakes comment that it looks Asian. They were popular in Germany and France in the 1800's...
Rit makes a product that captures color that has run (not color remover, but the one for removing color run). I used it once (on something I could...
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