What Bird?
What bird is this?
Sometimes an unusual angle gives you a whole new outlook.
The answer — tomorrow!
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ScrapHappy April 2026
I have tons of vintage jewelry and I am always looking for ways to get it out of boxes and out where I can see it. I have seen beautiful shadow box assemblages on YouTube and I finally created two for myself. (I photographed them without the frame and glass.) I bought very basic shadow […]
Guest Post — Little-known Facts about Weaving
I have been writing this textile blog for 14 years, but recently my husband pointed out that so far I have failed to report on large areas of weaving history. From pterodactyls to Hollywood movies, weaving is the thread that binds it all together, as he is now ready to mansplain: I am here to […]
Quaker Homespun, Part Five — Labor and Community
This is part five of my series on Thomas Fox, who was an English serge manufacturer in the late 1700s and early 1800s. His biography is called Quaker Homespun, and it is all online at archive.org. In April of 1783, Thomas married Sarah Smith of London. They went on to have 16 children, 9 of […]
Quaker Homespun, Part Four – New Technology
This is part four of my “book report” on Quaker Homespun, a biography of Thomas Fox, a wool cloth manufacturer who lived through the Industrial Revolution. We won’t go into any specific machines that he used, but we will look at the difficulties he faced, many of which have parallels in our own times. Thomas […]
Quaker Homespun, Part Three — Thomas Fox and Global Trade
This is part of a “book report” on the 1958 book, Quaker Homespun. The whole book is available online and I read it in just a few sittings, to help satisfy my curiosity about the history of textile manufacturing. I enjoyed following one individual through the era of the Industrial Revolution. As the American Revolution […]