All first-timers get the pink badges, as well as a permission slip to the coolest show at convention.
The program has become so popular, the organizers have had to limit it to beginners only. So when a pink badge enters the seminar room, a woman who resembles your first grade teacher scrutinizes your badge and checks your name off [...]
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“Any object, if studied correctly, brings all of society with it,” writes Françoise de Bonneville in The Book of Fine Linens. Consider the thumb. Consider the thumb’s role in weaving those fine linens. Weaving requires you to grasp an object between thumb and finger and pilot that tiny object. With such a precision grip, you [...]
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Putti
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Everything changed when I walked into that hotel room and encountered the putti.
From the Vulgar Latin puttus for boy, putti are small human children, usually male, often naked with wings. Putti grace many Italian Renaissance works of art. And 22 of the disembodied cherubs grace the size 10, circa 1908, [...]
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Otherwise known as thimble collectors, digitabulists insist their trinket hoards are justified. Thimbles serve a useful purpose, after all. Also, manufacturers of thimbles can be identified and dated. Thimbles have been patented, so there is lots of variety, both in design and manufacture. Thimbles have a long history of production and are cultural objects the world over. Thimble souvenirs remind us [...]
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