Textiles and Stories

Textiles and Words (stories) Using wavelength.aiMe: There are other linguistic connections between the two concepts of weaving and stories. For example, many of the phrases and words we use regarding storytelling make metaphorical reference to textiles and textile manufacturing. Here are a few examples, and I’d like you to come up with as many others as possible. My examples: 1. Weaving a tale 2. Spinning a yarn 3. Writing in an email thread 4. "That’s a whole different belt of cloth" 5. A ...

Penelope etymology

Penelope fem. proper name, name of the faithful wife in the "Odyssey," from Greek Pēnelopē, Pēnelopeia, which is perhaps related to pēne "thread on the bobbin," from pēnos "web," cognate with Latin pannus "cloth garment" (see pane (n.)). But Beekes suggests rather a connection with pēnelops "duck or wild goose with colored neck." Used in English as the type of the virtuous wife (1580) as it was in Latin.From etymonline.comrelatedly:pane (n.)mid-13c., "garment, cloak, mantle; a part of a ga...

Review - John Wick - Chapter 4

From Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns to Hong Kong action cinema, John Wick:Chapter 4 wears its influences on its bullet-proof sleeve. Yet one of the most instantly indelible moments in director Chad Stahelski’s fourth film doesn’t riff on classics full of shoot-outs and fights; instead, the Paris-set scene is most reminiscent of the slapstick antics of Laurel and Hardy’s "The Music Box." Even more impressively, it evokes almost as much utter glee as that essential comedy short. This franchi...

All of the Lingering Questions Ahead of Season 2 of Yellowjackets

Showtime/Getty Images/Ringer illustration            Seriously, like, all of them—because when a question is answered in this cannibal-teen mystery, it only raises more questions Season 1 of Yellowjackets starts not simply with a bang, but with an antler-wearing, throat-slitting, trap-setting, howling, cannibalizing cult. Of all the body horror headed our way throughout the first 10 episodes of Yellowjackets—the dreams of rotisserie-chicken babies and visions of land-use lawyers in business-c...

Review – Blue Jeans

Blue Jeans, Carolyn Purnell This is a sort of non-fiction I really like — something that focuses on an everyday object and unpicks it. Here it’s blue jeans, and goes into the colour, the garment, how they became combined, and the fashions around them and perceptions of them. Parts of it, like the creation of indigo, I already knew about, but it’s different to have the facts marshalled together like this and get a really clear view on how the creation of synthetic indigo has led to huge pol...

Today I Learned Something About My Boyfriend That No Girl Should Ever Have to Discover | by andrew costa | Human Parts

Today I Learned Something About My Boyfriend That No Girl Should Ever Have to DiscoverMark was the stuff of dreams Mark was the stuff of dreams. Kind, caring, attentive, enough to make all of my friends jealous. But today something happened, something horrible. Something I wouldn’t wish on even my worst enemy. I found out something about Mark that will forever change my opinion about him, and my ability to trust men has been forever shattered.Shortly after dinner, my best friend Jessica calle...

Our Tote Bags, Ourselves

In the 1880s, a newspaper owner named Jasper Meek was looking out the window of his print shop in Coshocton, Ohio, when he saw a young girl drop her school books. As the story now goes, the sight inspired him to fashion a burlap bag in which people could carry books. But Meek also had an entrepreneurial mind, and he figured out a way to maximize his profit: he’d charge local businesses to print their names on the bags, which then served as tiny billboards as they were carried across town. ...

Wearing of the Veil Traditions Throughout History | Ancient Origins

Wearing of the Veil Traditions Throughout History | Ancient OriginsAuthor: Ziad Shihab Wearing of the Veil Traditions Throughout History | Ancient Origins SourceURL: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/veil-wearing-tradition-0017535 Updated 16 November, 2022 - 21:59 Robbie Mitchell Wearing of the Veil Traditions Throughout History There is perhaps no piece of clothing in history that has caused more controversy than the veil. Currently, protests to raise awareness of ...

These rugs will unite this country like no other rugs have before (thing) by kessenich - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 These rugs will unite this country like no other rugs have before (thing) See all of These rugs will unite this country like no other rugs have before, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by kessenich Fri Jan 12 2001 at 22:52:57 If you can love the Australian Prime Ministers, then you can love anyone. -Martin Wilson Martin Wilson usually paints, but was inspired to do a hooked rug series of Australian PMs for the Federation wh...

Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930s | Isis: Vol 113, No 2

Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930s Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930sKijan EspahangiziAbstract At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called "glass diseases" seriously affected the use of scientific and technical glassware. It had become ap...

What Do Stripes Have to Say About Your Character?

From the rebels to the outcasts to the villainous schemers, stripes have a lot to say about your characters.  Stripes are one of the most noticeable patterns in existence, standing out because of their immediate and repetitive change from one color to another. The human eye and mind are unable to distinguish the foreground from the background, making the pattern hypnotic and visually confusing.  There is even an evolutionary theory that zebras wear stripes to confuse predators...

The Spindle, The Shuttle and the Needle (thing) by purple_curtain - Everything2.com

Clip source: The%20Spindle%2C%20The%20Shuttle%20and%20the%20Needle%20%28thing%29%20by%20purple_curtain%20-%20Everything2.com Near MatchesIgnore ExactFull Text Everything2The Spindle, The Shuttle and the Needle (thing)See all of The Spindle, The Shuttle and the Needle, no other writeups in this node.(thing)by purple_curtainWed May 22 2002 at 15:44:52 A fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. There was once upon a time a young maiden, whose mother and father had died when she was a smal...

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The Line of Beauty - Sex, anger, lust, danger: the semiotics of scarlet | 1843 | The Economist

The Line of BeautySex, anger, lust, danger: the semiotics of scarletA streak of red never goes out of fashionJul 10th 2020by Matthew SweetRed is trouble. Sometimes too much trouble. Look at what it’s doing to these pages; this paragraph. Flooding them with the promiscuity of its associations: blood, desire, danger, anger, love, good luck, failure, frustration, fight, flight, fault. We might beg for it to stop, but we’d need red to make the sign. And what would be the point? When we speak of t...

Shroud of Turin - Quantum Hologram

Quantum Hologram Shroud of Turin - Quantum Hologram Resurrection Photo in 3D? Once in awhile it's fun to read about space-age scientific endeavors that support biblical concepts. One example is the new science of cloning prehistoric animals and other beings. You haven't heard about this? Then be sure to look up the April 2013 issue of National Geographic Magazine and read Carl Zimmer's "Bringing them back to life". Just imagine, a once extinct species like the wooly mammoth or the dodo bird...

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From 'Emma' to Natalie Portman, a dress can be worth a thousand words - Los Angeles Times

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Notes on Hats

On hats and their symbolism: From Dictionary of Symbols: Hat According to Jung, the hat, since it covers the head, generally takes on the significance of what goes on inside it: thought. He recalls the German saying ‘to put all ideas under one hat’, and mentions that in Meyrink’s novel The Golem, the protagonist thinks the thoughts and undergoes the experiences of another man whose hat he has put on by mistake (32). Jung also points out that, since the hat is the ‘crown’ and summit of an...

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Uniforms of WWII in modern Army uniform revisions

SectionsSEARCHSkip to contentSkip to site indexU.S.Log InMonday, May 6, 2019Subscribe NowLog InToday’s PaperU.S.|To Stand Out, the Army Picks a New Uniform With a World War II Look203Supported byTo Stand Out, the Army Picks a New Uniform With a World War II LookTo Stand Out, the Army Picks a New Uniform With a World War II LookThe Army hopes that bringing back a service uniform styled like the one worn in World War II can refresh its public image. Troops from the Army’s 19th Bombardment Group...

What Gloves Meant to the Victorians

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