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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2009 15:52:35 GMT
Oh, I love rebozos. If I ever visit you in Mexico, I'll definitely buy one. You'll tell me where to get a quality rebozo. Ideally, I'd like to know who the weaver was. I think Bixa is weaving all the stalwarts one for APIAS's one year anniversary so you can say you know the weaver.
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Post by rikita on Sept 21, 2009 21:11:44 GMT
hm, i have various finish coins. though no really small ones. wasn't that one of hte countries that doesn't use the very small ones?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2009 4:21:19 GMT
Finland doesn't use the 0.01 and the 0.02. Hah! I have a euro from Monaco.
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Post by rikita on Sept 22, 2009 19:31:36 GMT
yeah that is what i meant.
here altely all that turns up is french and spanish coins. nothing exotic. well i got a luxembourgean 2 euro coin recently. they are a bit more rare here, but i already had one.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2009 19:46:41 GMT
In Paris, we get most everything from the neighboring countries -- principally Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Netherlands. But I have noticed that depending on the season, we get quite a bit of the other stuff -- Greece and Portugal at the end of summer (the Portuguese are the largest immigrant group in France), Ireland whenever there is a major rugby match, and always a bit of Austria and Luxembourg. As I already mentioned, the rarest coins are from Finland, Slovenia and Slovakia. Have I forgotten any?
In any case, I generally have fewer French coins in my pocket than coins from the other countries, except for the small copper ones that do not travel as much.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2009 19:47:37 GMT
Oh yes and Malta.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2009 10:40:57 GMT
This last seashore holiday I did not go looking for "beach glass" with the vigor of past trips. I have learned which tides and times of day at which particular beach are best for hunting these "jubees" as we called them when I was a child.(they resemble the candy). I have a nice collection,even a red one which is quite rare(how many things made with red glass make it out to sea? Perhaps it's from a broken ship's lantern). In the age of plastic,it's scarcer and scarcer. Amber and green are the most common,some lovely blues like the old Coca Cola bottles.And of course clear which is hard to spot.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2009 10:51:25 GMT
Yes, I always enjoyed picking up polished glass, although you normally have to keep it in water for it to look good -- most of it goes dull when it dries.
On my first big trips around the world, I collected little scraps of coral, smaller than my little finger, that I would find on the beaches of the Maldives, Mauritius, Tahiti, Cuba, Australia, Senegal, Bali, etc. They are in a little wooden box at home. I have no idea which piece comes from where, but I know I have all the oceans of the world in a box.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 2, 2009 19:20:24 GMT
Arrowheads. Though most of the ones I've found were added to my mother's extensive collection from central Wisconsin. (She has made beautiful displays on drift wood boards for each of her 3 daughters and her granddaughter, which we will receive when she is gone.)
I did find one in Montana though! Totally different from the Wisconsin ones.
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Post by imec on Oct 5, 2009 18:46:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 18:49:42 GMT
Oh, those are nice. I would suppose that they are imported from the other side of Persian Gulf?
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 5, 2009 19:05:35 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 5, 2009 19:55:54 GMT
Imec, can I have the one in the fourth picture when y'all get tired of it? They are exquisite.
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Post by imec on Oct 5, 2009 20:33:01 GMT
Well, we will give at least a couple away someday. Some friends we met in the Kingdom who helped us get started with rugs told us of a really cool tradition we vowed to adopt. When out kids get married (assuming the concept is not completely out of fashion by then), they will be invited to choose a rub of their choice to stand on for the ceremony. Following the ceremony, the rug will be rolled up and will be their first wedding gift.
K - yes, the rugs we bought are from Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Turkmenistan and so on.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 20:34:20 GMT
They had to be, because the Saudis make nothing.
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Post by imec on Oct 5, 2009 20:35:06 GMT
Nothing that I ever saw.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 20:35:56 GMT
They are very nice. So little wear and tear though,my house,those rugs ,after a couple of years with all the animals and gardening traffic and trudging, they would look pretty,what is the expression,a little worse for wear and tear? Then,there's the 31 year old argument about rugs in our house.
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Post by imec on Oct 5, 2009 20:39:10 GMT
You'd be surprised at what these rugs have been through. A hand knotted rug will take abeating for many years before it starts to show wear - and long before that it will increase in value as it develops a "patina".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 20:54:18 GMT
I have a very dear friend in NYC who started collecting small antique rugs and is now a major dealer. I went to umpteen auctions with him,even purchased a couple small ones. He taught me about the weft and weave stuff. I saw some really,really gorgeous ones in Istanbul and my traveling companion bought some. I could not because of the argument thing.(Essentially,Mr.C. hates rugs).We tried a six months of the year with rugs thing,six months bare floor. Oh,never mind. Another thread ,sometime, perhaps I'll go there....
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 19, 2010 13:46:49 GMT
This last seashore holiday I did not go looking for "beach glass" with the vigor of past trips. I have learned which tides and times of day at which particular beach are best for hunting these "jubees" as we called them when I was a child.(they resemble the candy). I have a nice collection,even a red one which is quite rare(how many things made with red glass make it out to sea? Perhaps it's from a broken ship's lantern). In the age of plastic,it's scarcer and scarcer. Amber and green are the most common,some lovely blues like the old Coca Cola bottles.And of course clear which is hard to spot. This morning's NYTimes has a good article on sea glass that touches on some of what Casimira said.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2010 14:03:24 GMT
I have a little treasure that I use regularly. I found a little porcelain dipping bowl on the beach in Nha Trang the last time I went to Vietnam. I scraped off some barnacles and other incrusted stuff and brought it home with me.
I wonder how old it is, who used to use it and how it was lost. And I bet nobody ever thought it would end up in Paris some day.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 19, 2010 15:00:36 GMT
So many nice collectibles are listed here. I am not an avid collector of anything specific, but I will accept kitchen items my mother or mother-in-law give me now and then such as my brown betty teapot and antique serving dishes. I am always attracted to scarves and purses at markets and keep them visible in a special storage area in my closet. Once, I collected from my family and friends all different kinds of chip and dip bowl and had a party filling each dish with a different item and sauce. That was fun, but I gave them all back. (I did want to keep a few though!)
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Post by tod2 on Oct 24, 2010 16:21:01 GMT
Imec , I have the identical carpet under my diningroom table - that is the carpet in the second photo. Please can you perhaps tell me where it was woven?
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Post by imec on Oct 27, 2010 2:14:57 GMT
Imec , I have the identical carpet under my diningroom table - that is the carpet in the second photo. Please can you perhaps tell me where it was woven? Well, I hope you either have a very small table or a much bigger version of the carpet - mine is prayer rug size - about 3'X5'. I honestly don't know where it was woven. We bought it from a shop run by Afghani gentlemen in a souq in Riyadh, KSA in about 1987. I believe the design is Bokhara (Turkomen) but these rugs have been copied by makers in other regions (Pakistan, Balochistan, Afghanistan etc. ).
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 27, 2010 12:25:26 GMT
You'd be surprised at what these rugs have been through. A hand knotted rug will take a beating for many years before it starts to show wear - and long before that it will increase in value as it develops a "patina". Those hand-knotted rugs were originally meant for daily use in unfriendly environments such as tents, weren't they? And they've repeatedly proved to last over a hundred years. The rugs from my area are woven of wool, not knotted, but the method of preparing the thread shows how tough traditional hand-made rugs will be. For one thing, in order to dye the thread, it must be boiled, then hung in the sun to dry. I've repeatedly washed my rugs in the washing machine and they come out as bright as ever.
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Post by tod2 on Nov 11, 2010 7:45:04 GMT
Imec - my carpet is 3metres X 2metres. I don't know how long or wide that is in feet, but when you mentioned Bokhara it seems to ring a bell. Thanks anyway.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 24, 2010 18:33:51 GMT
I probably mentioned this already, but I used to have tons of fish-themed items, many of which got passed on to my sister when I moved here.
However, as I leisurely decorate my new house, I decided it was time to fishy up the place a little bit. I'm trying to be subtle -- one very narrow tall shelves, with a minimum of items. (I love it!)
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2011 15:08:11 GMT
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Post by foreverman on Apr 6, 2011 5:06:24 GMT
Luckily she didnt say "either they go or I go".................might have got a shock...
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Post by rikita on Apr 6, 2011 20:00:35 GMT
one of my uncles collects frogs. he and my other uncle have a bar now, and it is frog-themed.
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