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Post by jaysee on Aug 14, 2015 7:38:57 GMT
rod222 - re the Colorano "Silk" Cachet for the Queen Mother's 80th birthday
"Not sure which country, this one, do not recognise it."
This one is from Gibraltar, the stamp 15 p (SG 436)
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Post by rod222 on Aug 14, 2015 10:34:05 GMT
This one is from Gibraltar, the stamp 15 p (SG 436) Thanks.  Database adjusted. |
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Post by jimjung on Aug 15, 2015 23:17:26 GMT
An oldie from Belgium - Nice postmark ANTWERPEN VII 14-15 1949 (Antwerp)  |
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Post by Ryan on Sept 23, 2015 10:22:26 GMT
Here's a 1976 issue from Sweden showing a bobbin lace maker. The design is rather simplistic but it's one of my favourite stamps engraved by Czeslaw Slania. It has a remarkable photographic quality to it, but if you look at it under high magnification you can see how simply the hair and face are actually engraved, for example. I also like the way so many of his engravings have plenty of white space, rather than filling every possible bit of area with cross-hatching or other types of shading which make the design "muddy". I wonder how extensive his consultations with the stamp designer were - is it just a coincidence that so many of his stamps look like that, or was Slania fairly involved with the stamp's design as well? Slania was a big rock star among stamp & banknote engravers, and there are plenty of people who collect his engravings. Ann Mette Heindorff created an excellent page for Slania collectors - although she has since passed away, her page lives on.  Ryan |
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Post by jaysee on Sept 24, 2015 7:37:15 GMT
Lederhosen - a new stamp from Austria, released 24 September 2015, made of Alcantara leather decorated with Swarovski crystals. What is Alcantara leather? According to Wiki "Alcantara is a tradename given to a composite material used to cover surfaces and forms in a variety of applications. It can be described as an artificial substitute for suede leather. Alcantara is produced by combining an advanced spinning process (producing very low denier bi-component "islands in the sea" fibre) and chemical and textile production processes (needle punching, buffing, impregnation, extraction, finishing, dyeing, etc.) which interact with each other." colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/560781-Lederhosen-Austria |
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Post by hs2oca on Feb 2, 2016 18:26:59 GMT
... Scott 2238a; Navajo art (handmade blankets), multicolored, perf. 11, tagged, designed by Derry Noyes, issued September 4, 1986. Scott 2354a; Lacemaking, ultra & white, perf. 11, tagged, designed by Libby Thiel, issued August 14, 1987. Hi Steve. Thought I'd let you know, I've now added these two sets of stamps to my collection. Love the lacemaking one! |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 3, 2016 4:20:09 GMT
Stamps on Textiles. Meet Penny Postage.  |
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Post by hs2oca on Feb 3, 2016 16:45:49 GMT
Lol! What a sweater! For your favourite stamp collecting gal...
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Post by rod222 on Feb 3, 2016 22:57:07 GMT
I am still a little cloudy on what actually is a textile , what is a fabric. Postal envelope made from Pitcairn fibres, would this be a textile? thestampforum.boards.net/post/24296/threadTextile? Sc#197 1980 Handicraft.  |
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Post by hs2oca on Feb 3, 2016 23:55:32 GMT
Hi Rod. I consider fabric just one type of textile. Yarn is a textile too. Lace (thread) is a textile. It can be pushed to the outer limits too. So I'd consider that fibre envelope a textile as well. Cool item by the way! ETA: I have a copy of that Pitcairn stamp on its way to me. It's questionable whether it's textile or not. I have to read up on the plant fibre used to make it. You can weave a number of materials, including wire and paper. That doesn't make them textiles. |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 4, 2016 4:39:47 GMT
Hi Rod. I consider fabric just one type of textile. Yarn is a textile too. Lace (thread) is a textile. It can be pushed to the outer limits too. So I'd consider that fibre envelope a textile as well. Cool item by the way! ETA: I have a copy of that Pitcairn stamp on its way to me. It's questionable whether it's textile or not. I have to read up on the plant fibre used to make it. You can weave a number of materials, including wire and paper. That doesn't make them textiles. Cheers Jean, I have a strong recollection, the bonnets and fans are made from the Pandanus Plant, that would need confirmation. I have a Pitcairn Catalogue, I'll try and locate it and leaf through it (accidental pun). wiki Pandan is used for handicrafts. Craftsmen collect the pandan leaves from plants in the wild. Only the mature leaves are cut so the plant will naturally regenerate. The leaves are sliced in fine strips and sorted for further processing. Weavers produce basic pandan mats of standard size or roll the leaves into pandan ropes for other designs. This is followed by a coloring process, in which pandan mats are placed in drums with water-based colors. After drying, the colored mats are shaped into final products, such as place mats or jewelry boxes. Final color touch-ups may be applied |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 4, 2016 4:48:17 GMT
Jean, the halfpenny stamp of 1957 with Queen Elizabeth bust, has the "Cordyline Terminalus" vignette (of the asparagus family) These may also be a suspect for the Pitcairn Envelope. wiki Leaves were also used to make items of clothing including skirts worn in dance performances. The Hawaiian hula skirt is a dense skirt with an opaque layer of at least 50 green leaves and the bottom (top of the leaves) shaved flat. The Tongan dance dress, the sisi, is an apron of about 20 leaves, worn over a tupenu, and decorated with some yellow or red leaves. Update SOLVED "Piory Thatch" www.stamps.gov.pn/Weaving.htm |
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Post by hs2oca on Feb 4, 2016 7:01:20 GMT
Rod, thanks for the link to the process for the Pitcairn weaving. It actually qualifies as a textile in my mind because it is being manipulated like a natural fibre, and it is woven, sewn, and manipulated like a fibre. Plus it can be worn as well. Fascinating process!
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Post by rod222 on Feb 4, 2016 22:10:08 GMT
Update.
From Meralda on Pitcairn Island,
who most generously, replied to my query
Hi Rod,
Sorry I havent answered before but Had a glytch getting the Internet sorted here.
I know you said you have the information.BUT...
We weave using Pandanus which is screw pine. This have thorns on each blade of the thatch.
Piory which have almost no thorns,
We use Mo o which grow near the sea.
We also use pulau bark.
What is the project for?
Meralda
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Post by hs2oca on Feb 5, 2016 1:22:26 GMT
Sounds like they have quite the history of turning natural fibers into woven material. |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 6, 2016 8:41:16 GMT
1980 Denmark Lace.  |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 8, 2016 22:10:05 GMT
Are Rugs, Textiles ?
Curiosity.
Textiles are also "non nudists"
example : Nudists to the left of the flag, textiles to the right.
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Post by tomiseksj on Feb 8, 2016 23:42:46 GMT
The Textile Museum at The George Washington University considers them so. |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 9, 2016 1:40:00 GMT
Thanks Steve!
It is curious as to how, textiles can be relevant to everyday life. Just recently the Australian Test Cricket team voted to keep the fabulous "Cable stitch" wool knitted jumpers,
in preference to modern lightweight alternatives.
I was so happy to see this culture remain.
All my life, cricket was played in "cricket whites or creams" and the latest Brit team to visit had red shoes,
I had to turn off the TV and listen on radio. They mess with history.
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Post by rod222 on Feb 9, 2016 1:49:51 GMT
Romanian Peasant Rugs 1975 Sc# 2583-2588  |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 9, 2016 1:56:31 GMT
Great Britain (Apologies if I have posted prior) Machin Wall Rug Produced in Kathmandu, Nepal.  Zeppelin Rug  |
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Post by hs2oca on Feb 9, 2016 19:28:54 GMT
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Post by hs2oca on Feb 12, 2016 22:02:26 GMT
Here's another set of stamps I recently acquired...well...last year... The 1996 Canada Day patchwork stamp...  And a fun set of stamps from Christmas 2006...thanks to a gentleman in the USA...that show knit designs.  |
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Post by philatelia on Feb 13, 2016 0:23:58 GMT
I never saw that stamp in a full sheet, so had no idea it was in a quilt pattern. Nice, Jean!
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Post by rod222 on Feb 16, 2016 1:18:34 GMT
Armenia 1920 40 rubles Prepared for use, but not issued (Set CV $10)  |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 16, 2016 1:24:00 GMT
Romania 1906 Semi Postal 3 bani (+7 bani) Queen Elizabeth of Romania, spinning (Genuine)  |
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Post by Jen B on Feb 16, 2016 2:58:44 GMT
What a beautiful design on that Romanian stamp. Do you think Elizabeth is spinning wool or flax? I'd guess flax, since she is using a distaff. But I'd be wrong. Based on this Linn's article on the series, it could be hemp. From the article discussing Elizabeth's charitable works: Other personal causes were an organization that translated children’s books into Romanian; a society called Albian that provided “rough” sewing work to poor women, such as making tents and clothing for soldiers; and a society called Concordia that encouraged native industry, especially schools that taught students to weave linen from native hemp.
I found this article when trying to find out what the writing at the bottom meant. According to the same article, it translates as "God guide our hand". |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 16, 2016 3:14:15 GMT
Absolutely no idea. Another great study by your good self, Jen, marvelous piece there by Kathleen Wunderly. What an achiever Queen Elizabeth was. I liked the stamp design, but my only interest lie with wondering if the flowers were Edelweiss or daisies I had to rely on my old friend Youtube, to find out about flax spinning...
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Post by rod222 on Feb 16, 2016 3:35:06 GMT
Flax fiber is extracted from the bast beneath the surface of the stem of the flax plant.
Flax fibre is soft, lustrous and flexible; bundles of fibre have the appearance of blonde hair, hence the description "flaxen"
She asks me why, I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night, hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low, don't ask me why, don't know
It's not for lack of bread, like the Greatful Dead, darlin'
Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there, hair, shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy
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Post by hs2oca on Feb 16, 2016 15:56:11 GMT
lol. Rod, some of the hardest spinning to do is flax spinning. It's hard on the hands. I've heard. I've never tried it. I don't have the space for a proper flax wheel here. Though I did see them a lot in museums in the Maritimes. They are big wheels. Flax goes through a retting (or rotting) process to make it soft enough to spin. You have to let it sit in water and possibly some chemicals (depending how purist you are) for several weeks to soften so you can spin it. It is a long, time consuming process to go from the plant to a woven garment of linen, which is made from flax. That's why linen is so expensive. JenB. I found this on spinning flax and hemp...You're right. Could have been either. |
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