Yesterday I learned three new things; 1) an astounding thing regarding silk, 2) Dr. Phil and 3: Telling lies.
1. I love to watch video clips all about Ancient Girl. She lives on a small farm in China, it is a mix of modern and old. She has a computer but likes to do things the old fashioned way. They live there using ancient methods for the most part. She picks corn and takes off the kernels and takes them to a stone wheel to grind her corn into much. She pours the kernels into a hole on the top of the stone and then used a wooden rod to walk the stone around to grind the corn. This is very labor intensive and she picks a whopping load of red pepper to be chopped up and mixed into the corn. This is all put in a large storage jar and saved for later. She goes about her business doing various tasks.
The vid I watched yesterday involved her picking Mulberry leaves, spreading them on top of straw and putting larva of silk worms to eat the leaves. When the leaves were consumed and gathered up the cotton ball sized balls and took them in bags to be boiled in water. Once they had boiled long enough she fished them out and peeled out the dead larva. The silk puffs were then boiled some more and dried.
After initial drying, the girl sat at a chair looking thing with a arched back made of steel. She took each silk pod and gently stretched it to about six inches in size. She draped the silk over the top of the rod and pulled down. The silk expanded to cover each side of the form. She put about five or six silks on to of one another until she had a larger pad formed then pulled the large rpad off and started a new pile. She processed all of the silk pods just like this. Then a couple people helped her stretch each pad out over an area the size of a card table. It looked like dough being formed for baklava. After all the pads were treated thus, the group added a few more hands and those size pods were stretched out over the queen size bed form. This had about six layers added.
Then, this is the astounding part. The girl tacked the quilt together to look like a puffy european bed topper. There was no weaving used at all to create this fabric! When that was done she sewed the edges shut and voila a brand new silk quilt. I. WANT. ONE.
Then she took another quilt and made the older lady a jacket.
I was totally astounded, I had no idea such a wonderful thing could be made without the weaving stage. The color was white the original color of the thread.
The next part of the vid showed her taking a quilt jacket to the meadow to trade for some wool and a lamb. She washed, and cleaned and carded the wool and did spin the wool onto several spindles. She then died the wool using smashed berries and it turned a lovely lavender. She hung the wool roving over a wash line to dry. When it was dry, she started braiding the roving together. When she had them all braided, she sewed them together and crocheted the ends up. Again there was no use of a loom. She wound up with a chrocheted winter cape and lamb chops.
2. I am probably going to go to Hell for not liking Dr. Phil. Don't get me wrong, he does wonderful work, gives terrific advice and provides services for the ill, terrified, abused people he sees on his show. I don't particularly like Dr. Phil because he is just the teeniest firmly conservative. Until last night. I was listening to more Ron White and he told a story of his good buddy, Dr.Phil. They met in Monaco and Doc invited them on his yacht for a party. Ron drank himself into stupidity and he told an incredibly rank Maimie Eisenhower joke and he stumbled off the boat, dislocated his shoulder, had several stitches placed in his hand and blacked out. His wife told him what an ass he had made of himself and he felt so bad that Dr. Phil would never invite him back and he began debating with himself that he needed to quit drinking, become a better man, treat people better. He was feeling pretty depressed. About that time Dr. Phil called and said," You wanna come over and party tonight?" "F-ck, yeah!" So Dr. Phi gets my vote for this one.
3. I was watching ET last night and they were covering Amy Schumer's Comedy special. She was talking about her fiance'. He told her that he was on the autism spectrum. She realized that those characteristics were exactly what she had fallen in love with. She said he cannot tell her a lie.
I suddenly realized that I know someone like that. And I have known and loved him for over 25 years. He cannot tell a lie. I always thought it was because he refused to lie and had to then explain his way around the comment and reason until who ever he was explaining this to lay at his feet stunned into a paralytic state. He is also OCD. He does almost every thing around the house. I just thought he loved me. (wipes tear at eye) I wash the dishes, I sweep the floor. I make the bed. I occasionally cook. Everything else is him. He shops, he drives me everywhe, he mows the lawn....I. HIT. THE. JACKPOT!!
Wonder what new thing I will learn tomorrow?
1. I love to watch video clips all about Ancient Girl. She lives on a small farm in China, it is a mix of modern and old. She has a computer but likes to do things the old fashioned way. They live there using ancient methods for the most part. She picks corn and takes off the kernels and takes them to a stone wheel to grind her corn into much. She pours the kernels into a hole on the top of the stone and then used a wooden rod to walk the stone around to grind the corn. This is very labor intensive and she picks a whopping load of red pepper to be chopped up and mixed into the corn. This is all put in a large storage jar and saved for later. She goes about her business doing various tasks.
The vid I watched yesterday involved her picking Mulberry leaves, spreading them on top of straw and putting larva of silk worms to eat the leaves. When the leaves were consumed and gathered up the cotton ball sized balls and took them in bags to be boiled in water. Once they had boiled long enough she fished them out and peeled out the dead larva. The silk puffs were then boiled some more and dried.
After initial drying, the girl sat at a chair looking thing with a arched back made of steel. She took each silk pod and gently stretched it to about six inches in size. She draped the silk over the top of the rod and pulled down. The silk expanded to cover each side of the form. She put about five or six silks on to of one another until she had a larger pad formed then pulled the large rpad off and started a new pile. She processed all of the silk pods just like this. Then a couple people helped her stretch each pad out over an area the size of a card table. It looked like dough being formed for baklava. After all the pads were treated thus, the group added a few more hands and those size pods were stretched out over the queen size bed form. This had about six layers added.
Then, this is the astounding part. The girl tacked the quilt together to look like a puffy european bed topper. There was no weaving used at all to create this fabric! When that was done she sewed the edges shut and voila a brand new silk quilt. I. WANT. ONE.
Then she took another quilt and made the older lady a jacket.
I was totally astounded, I had no idea such a wonderful thing could be made without the weaving stage. The color was white the original color of the thread.
The next part of the vid showed her taking a quilt jacket to the meadow to trade for some wool and a lamb. She washed, and cleaned and carded the wool and did spin the wool onto several spindles. She then died the wool using smashed berries and it turned a lovely lavender. She hung the wool roving over a wash line to dry. When it was dry, she started braiding the roving together. When she had them all braided, she sewed them together and crocheted the ends up. Again there was no use of a loom. She wound up with a chrocheted winter cape and lamb chops.
2. I am probably going to go to Hell for not liking Dr. Phil. Don't get me wrong, he does wonderful work, gives terrific advice and provides services for the ill, terrified, abused people he sees on his show. I don't particularly like Dr. Phil because he is just the teeniest firmly conservative. Until last night. I was listening to more Ron White and he told a story of his good buddy, Dr.Phil. They met in Monaco and Doc invited them on his yacht for a party. Ron drank himself into stupidity and he told an incredibly rank Maimie Eisenhower joke and he stumbled off the boat, dislocated his shoulder, had several stitches placed in his hand and blacked out. His wife told him what an ass he had made of himself and he felt so bad that Dr. Phil would never invite him back and he began debating with himself that he needed to quit drinking, become a better man, treat people better. He was feeling pretty depressed. About that time Dr. Phil called and said," You wanna come over and party tonight?" "F-ck, yeah!" So Dr. Phi gets my vote for this one.
3. I was watching ET last night and they were covering Amy Schumer's Comedy special. She was talking about her fiance'. He told her that he was on the autism spectrum. She realized that those characteristics were exactly what she had fallen in love with. She said he cannot tell her a lie.
I suddenly realized that I know someone like that. And I have known and loved him for over 25 years. He cannot tell a lie. I always thought it was because he refused to lie and had to then explain his way around the comment and reason until who ever he was explaining this to lay at his feet stunned into a paralytic state. He is also OCD. He does almost every thing around the house. I just thought he loved me. (wipes tear at eye) I wash the dishes, I sweep the floor. I make the bed. I occasionally cook. Everything else is him. He shops, he drives me everywhe, he mows the lawn....I. HIT. THE. JACKPOT!!
Wonder what new thing I will learn tomorrow?
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