I inherited some threads.
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reynardoIt's a huge bag of mixed thick cotton thread in beautiful bright colours. There are multiples of some of the colours, which makes me think that someone bought them for a project.
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lederhosen's mother, but we agreed that they don't look like the sort of thing she would use, so we wondered if they were actually her mother-in-law's stuff. This would date them as around the 1950s and 60s, which matches the style of the thread covers.
But tucked in among them was one skein of a very very fine silk thread, weighing almost nothing and completely alien among the thick cottons. It had the manufacturer's name and a colour, but when I pulled up their website the colour didn't match the catalogue number at all. So I wrote to them, and here's their response:
Thank you for your email, it looks like you have had a wonderful surprise
with the find of embroidery threads. The Pearsalls Washing Filoselle is
Shade 60A which at the time was the reference for Steel Blue. Now Steel Blue
is 072 to 077. We think the threads are from between 1900 and 1930, possibly
slightly later but around that era.
That makes it probably from the sewing basket of my husband's great-grandmother.
Or, as he puts it, "that's fourth generation stash, isn't it?"
Be afraid. Be very afraid...
I got them from
lederhosen's mother, but we agreed that they don't look like the sort of thing she would use, so we wondered if they were actually her mother-in-law's stuff. This would date them as around the 1950s and 60s, which matches the style of the thread covers.But tucked in among them was one skein of a very very fine silk thread, weighing almost nothing and completely alien among the thick cottons. It had the manufacturer's name and a colour, but when I pulled up their website the colour didn't match the catalogue number at all. So I wrote to them, and here's their response:
Thank you for your email, it looks like you have had a wonderful surprise
with the find of embroidery threads. The Pearsalls Washing Filoselle is
Shade 60A which at the time was the reference for Steel Blue. Now Steel Blue
is 072 to 077. We think the threads are from between 1900 and 1930, possibly
slightly later but around that era.
That makes it probably from the sewing basket of my husband's great-grandmother.
Or, as he puts it, "that's fourth generation stash, isn't it?"
Be afraid. Be very afraid...
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Date: 2012-01-17 06:26 am (UTC)Do you have any plans for it?
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Date: 2012-01-17 06:49 am (UTC)You'll have to use it for something special, definitely.
And don't let it turn into fifth-generation stash!
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