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Post by Honeylioness on Apr 29, 2010 13:53:28 GMT -5
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Post by Honeylioness on Apr 29, 2010 13:54:11 GMT -5
* Mattress Sizes
o Twin--39 x 75 inches (or 99 x 190 cm)
o X-Long Twin--39 x 80 inches (99 x 203 cm)
o Full--54 x 75 inches (137 x 190 cm)
o Queen--60 x 80 inches (or 153 x 203 cm)
o King--76 x 80 inches (or 198 x 203 cm)
o California King--72 x 84 inches (or 182 x 213 cm)
* Fitted Sheet Sizes
o Twin--39 x 75 inches (or 99 x 190 cm)
o X-Long Twin--39 x 80 inches (99 x 203 cm)
o Full--54 x 75 inches (137 x 190 cm)
o Queen--60 x 80 inches (or 153 x 203 cm)
o King--76 x 80 inches (or 198 x 203 cm)
o California King--72 x 84 inches (or 182 x 213 cm)
* Flat Sheet Sizes
o Twin--66 x 96 inches (or 167 x 243 cm)
o X-Long Twin--66 x 102 inches (or 167 x 259 cm)
o Full--81 x 96 inches (or 205 x 243 cm)
o Queen--90 x 102 inches (or 228 x 259 cm)
o King/California King--108 x 102 inches (or 274 x 259 cm)
* Comforter Sizes
o Twin--68 x 86 inches (or 173 x 218 cm)
o Full/Queen--86 x 86 inches (or 218 x 218 cm)
o King/California King--100 x 90 inches (or 254 x 229 cm)
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Post by Honeylioness on Jul 15, 2010 8:53:00 GMT -5
ImagesTransfiguration Cathedral of Kizhi Island www.offbeattravel.com/kizhi-island.html Thirty-thousand shingles of Aspen wood on 22 soaring onion domes cover the Transfiguration Cathedral of Russia's Kizhi Island. Built during the reign of Peter the Great in 1714, the church is too large to heat during the winter. So, the locals built a much smaller winter church next door. The cathedral is entirely made of wood, and no nails were used in its construction. Currently, the integrity of the building is at risk as many of the spruce logs are weakened by insects and rot. Castle Stalker in Loch Linnhe www.castlestalker.com/You won't find the Holy Grail here. The cast of Monty Python already looked during the filming of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' You will find that Castle Stalker is one of the best-preserved medieval castle towers in all of Scotland. The castle was built around 1440 AD by the Stewarts, who, after nearly 200 years, lost the castle in a drunken bet to the Campbell Clan. Two centuries later, the Campbells eventually moved out after losing the roof of the castle. Today, Castle Stalker is fully restored and privately owned.
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Post by Honeylioness on Mar 7, 2011 13:16:00 GMT -5
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Post by Honeylioness on Aug 29, 2011 11:39:56 GMT -5
Is the spinning wheel responsible for the drive belt?
So it turns out that my mom didn't like being called a Luddite in my August 8th post—but I didn't find this out until weeks after the email went out, even though I told her about the post in person, explained the concept, and followed up by sending her a copy asking her to let me know what she thought. I'm so sorry, Mom! I never intended it to be a derogatory term. When my mom and I were discussing this, I explained that among my crowd (all you spinners), the term Luddite is used endearingly—and for some it is actually an aspiration. As reader Susan Sullivan Maynard pointed out, true Luddites were really social activists who were protesting the loss of jobs to the machines of the industrial revolution—and a revolution it was.
Nowadays the term is used more loosely to describe people who are reluctant to adopt new technology. On the one hand, so many of us take up spinning as a way to return to a more balanced, hands-on lifestyle—a revolt against a world that has become dominated by hand-held electronic devices. On the other hand, spinners love tools—whether they are lovingly handcrafted from wood or fancy apps on their smart phones that help them figure out the wraps per inch of a yarn. I think that there is room for all kinds of spinners in this world—the ones who'd like to step back in time and the ones who'd like to jump forward, embracing all new technology as it comes along.
As spinners in this day and age, we are in a unique position of having our hands touching both worlds—and I was fascinated to discover through the process of editing one of the articles in the Fall 2011 issue of Spin-Off (which focuses on the wheel)—that spinning wheel technology might have been the start of mechanization. Realization struck when I read this sentence in Julia Farwell-Clay's article about the Han Dynasty wheel that Jonathan Bosworth reproduced: "Then came the question of the drive mechanism. It is ingenious in displaying complexity and simplicity at once and for being the likely introduction of the world to the drive belt, allowing for innumerable mechanical applications ever since, from car engines to cassette tapes."
This was a mind-blowing revelation to me. I knew that looms were the precursors to modern computers, that space shuttles owe more than their name to the weaver's shuttle, and that the industrial revolution started with the mechanization of the mysterious and complex art of turning wool fibers into yarn. But somehow I had missed that when the simple mechanisms of the spindle—whorl and shaft—were turned on their sides and another larger whorl was added with a drive band creating a pulley system between the two, allowing for greater speed and efficiency in spinning, that the foundation had been laid for every pulley system that followed, including the modern combustion engine.
So when people comment that spinning is anachronistic, that we're stuck in the past, you can (kindly) let them know that actually, spinning is the mother of the modern mechanized world. It is very possible that the tools used for spinning laid the foundation for every machine that followed—and that likely started with a bit of fiber and a stick, which is still a handy tool for making yarn.
Happy spinning,
Amy Clarke Moore
is the editor of
Spin-Off magazine.
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