How about Spatterdash? It's in my RBD (Really Big Dictionary) and they were a sort of cross between a gaiter and a spat (no Polly not your sort of Gator) and was generally used in WWI army uniforms to protect the wearer from mud. I suppose one could quilt such a thing, if it helps to keep it on Topic! Cheers, Fay PS I did get 99% in Editing in my professional writing course if you need to inspect my credentials.
THIS CALLS FOR A PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!
YAY! for your super grade. I do hope you did celebrate
Butterfly (I'll bring the Catherdral jello )
Egads! I am so _not_ a linguistic prodigy! I also have Great Fear of editors because my grammer and puncuation sucks. It is just that some of my interests have taken me to where the wierd sewing words dwell. Plus I have a tendancy to use archaic words, I think that goes back to snagging most of my early reading material out of my dad's second hand and antiques shop. It left me with a love of the classics, a strange vocabulary, and a burning curiosity as to what the heck watered silk was. Had I but known, some of the endpapers of those books were watered silk. (G)
Anybody is welcome to hop in on this. I am trying to maintain thread continuity to avoid repeating myself. If I see that somebody else has posted a word or term I will happily take the day off, but if you find a nifty one and somebody else has already posted go ahead anyway. It is not like there are rules, or as if we will run out of words and terms.
NightMist
BTW, love the word!
NightMist
How about "Tenter" for today--
A machine that dries and stretches cloth to its finished width and straightens the weave by the action of two divergin endless chains. Each chain is equipped with a series of clips or pins that hold the edges of the cloth and covey it over gas flames or through a hot-air drying compartment.
I have an old book published by Dan River company called "A Dictionary of Textile Terms".
Any questins??
Anna Belle
You would do well to know the difference between gaiters and gators before you plan a visit to The Swamp. Meanwhile back to the subject, I needed one of your textile rare words last week. The quilt top is just HSTs; the upper left half is bright scraps; the lower half is white. The white is not solid white but each that I used has a tiny (really, really tiny) one color only floral print. They 'read' as white from any distance but I was able to locate the prints with red, purple, blue and just a few yellow. Somewhere in the deep, vague recesses of my memory, there's a name for this category of fabric. Anyone know? Polly
those deep recesses of my mind are like little pockets hidden here and there that store bits of this and that but rarely release the bits when i really need'em. hmmm, sounds a bit like diverticulitis (sp?), lol. sorry, nothing there that is really funny, eh. fwiw.... here in the depths of the south pacific a colour print on the same colour background is a tone on tone. then again, various wee prints in two colours are often called calico prints or just calicos. beats heck outta me :-/ j.
"Polly Esther" wrote... You would do well to know the difference between gaiters and gators before you plan a visit to The Swamp. Meanwhile back to the subject, I needed one of your textile rare words last week. The quilt top is just HSTs; the upper left half is bright scraps; the lower half is white. The white is not solid white but each that I used has a tiny (really, really tiny) one color only floral print. They 'read' as white from any distance but I was able to locate the prints with red, purple, blue and just a few yellow. Somewhere in the deep, vague recesses of my memory, there's a name for this category of fabric. Anyone know? Polly
Ah, Jeanne. Won't it be something when they do our autopsies and discover that we were dealing with diverticulitis of the memory? Polly
"jeanne-nzlstar*" those deep recesses of my mind are like little pockets
foulard: n. A lightweight twill or plain-woven fabric of silk or silk and cotton, usually having a small printed design. An article of clothing, especially a necktie or scarf, made of this fabric.
Found this word to possibly give a name to Polly's small prints. I've seen it used as a category of print design especially for Provence fabrics.
Roberta in D
Polly, those sound like shirting fabrics. Very common in ages past to make boys'/men's shirts from.
Pati, > You would do well to know the difference between gaiters and gators before
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