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joysdaughter

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May 25, 2005 09:02

I thoroughly enjoyed my volunteer day at the Museum of London yesterday. They are repacking all their shawls, so my job was to take each shawl out of the open plastic tray it was in, remove the old tissue paper, wrap or fold it in new tissue, list it for information and put it into a closed archive box. There were some very interesting items in the ( Read more... )

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pinkdiamond May 25 2005, 10:08:40 UTC

I am officially putting in a request for the diagram(s)! Sounds absolutely dreamy:)

joysdaughter May 25 2005, 10:23:07 UTC

I'll get back to you. JennylaFleur told me how to post stuff behind a cut, but I don't think I have anywhere I want to host it, as at the moment it is not public knowledge. I'll have to e-mail it to you, once I have made it up!!

isiswardrobe May 25 2005, 12:31:27 UTC

Sounds like you had a wonderful day! ANd I'd dearly love the diagram, if it's not too much trouble. :-)

maudelynn May 25 2005, 17:04:57 UTC

ahh lucky lucky lady..
that is a grand idea... volunteering at the museum.
Perhaps i should do that here..
I would love to get up close to some egyptian things!
Which reminds me... we must talk assuit dresses at some point.. they are my current fascination!

joysdaughter May 25 2005, 17:06:35 UTC

Tell me more about assuit - me, I know nothing.

maudelynn May 25 2005, 17:09:04 UTC

Ooooh it is an egyptian weaving technique.. they used to use gold.. linky below

http://www.rubylane.com/ni/shops/kisoriginals/iteml/k1353#pic1

there are complete dresses out of this and I NEED ONE!!!

joysdaughter May 25 2005, 17:52:46 UTC

I DO know about this, but didn't know what it was called. There were two assuit shawls in the collection yesterday - the curator has an article on that kind of work she is going to give me next time I go in. Boy, were they HEAVY!!! Very beautiful, and untarnished, after many years. I didn't check the dates as that was not yesterday's job.

noxcat May 25 2005, 18:04:55 UTC

I'd love a copy of the burnoose diagram too, please. :)

joysdaughter May 25 2005, 18:06:55 UTC

You are on the list too - I shall definitely have to draw it out now, shan't I?

joysdaughter May 25 2005, 21:04:04 UTC

Fingers crossed you should find the diagram here. If it needs a login name and password, e-mail and I will send it to you.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Sistersuzi/Burnousediagram.jpg