“For as tailors preserve their cabbage, So squires take care of bag and baggage.”
“Pieces, patches, ropes of haire,/In-laid garbage ev’rywhere.”
“His credit cannot get the inward carbage for his cloathes as yet”
Cabbage: Shreds (or larger pieces) of cloth cut off by tailors in the process of cutting out clothes, and appropriated by them as a perquisite.
Oxford English Dictionary...top three examples offered in that text
My compact edition of the OED with my “glass” for reading. I used to spend hours in DH Hill Library on NCSU campus reading the OED! I know; I’m that good kind of weird! :)
Happy Friday and Happy November!
I don’t know about you, but this week has been...well...a trying week; however, I have been quietly stitching some personal embroidery work in the evening and watching Bernadette Banner (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bernadette+banner) videos as I sew, which I find very helpful and relaxing. Bernadette sews historically accurate clothing based on her extensive studies on the matter, and she loves hand stitching. I have also learned a lot! One fun thing is that scraps, as we call them in quilting, are called cabbage in other sewing circles. So naturally I had to get out my trusty and absolutely beloved OED to see the long use of the word “cabbage” in sewing terms. 1648 is the earliest entry, and the 1690 entry says, “a Taylor, and what they pinch from the Cloaths they make up.” Ha! “Pinch” being another word for steal. So if you need good history discussions, quiet hand stitching, and beautiful language like “whilst,” you should check out Bernadette’s YouTube channel.
Besides forays into historical contexts of words, I have been busy sewing in the studio. I finished three quilts, along with a few other projects...I have a long way to go before Thanksgiving, but I am feeling good about my progress.
Posted this lovely on Instagram this week. You can go to my Instagram feed to see the front…it is beautiful!
What have you been doing for yourself this week? Leave me a comment below…I would love to hear from you!
Have a great week. Stay safe.
Sending Quilting Love,
Ginger
Coming Next Week: That depends on you...what would you like to hear about? Leave a comment by next Tuesday or Wednesday! More about the Anniversary quilt next week, too! Pictures of my night time embroidery? Would you like to see that?
I am Reading: Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Alexander Langlands. I finished both The Murder at the Vicarage and Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie. I started Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, and now I am casting about for what my mind needs next. The Mann novel was acquired at the library along with Blue Rose by Carol Muske-Dukes (poetry). I feel like I might need some Virginia Woolf soon...maybe I will reread “Death of a Moth” or A Room of One’s Own...I’ll let you know next week!