Bleu Ton Sur Ton
Anyone who follows my photostream knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces of haberdashery. I usually focus on Dewhurst’s Sylko spools, but I also have spools from many other manufacturers which have interesting and beautiful graphics on their heads. For this photograph I have a spool of Glista silk substitute machine twist from the 1930s and a spool of Cozilka machine twist from the 1920s. Some time ago, I went fabric shopping at a specialist shop that has a particularly wonderful range of unusual fabrics that they sell by the quarter metre (just enough for my purposes). Amongst other pieces I bought this beautiful hand dyed pale blue pleated wool crêpe which I have used to accessorise my two spools and two lovely cobalt blue glass Art Deco buttons from the 1920s.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 17th of May is “ton sur ton”. “Ton sur ton” is a French expression that we can translate as “tone on tone”; that's when there are two (or more) assembled items of the same colour, but not the same shade (tint, hue). In this example, the spools and the buttons are all shades of blue, but the shades are darker than that of the pale blue crêpe background. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
I could find very little about Glista Bright Machine Twist other than an advertisement from an English Du Barry patterns magazine from 1939. The advertisement says: “Be sure and sew with Glista, the best machine twist for woollens or cotton fabrics – strong and silky – works perfectly for machine or hand sewing. 100-yard reels – look for the name on the reels.” I know Glista Bright Machine Twist was produced in Britain, and I know it was sold through F. W. Woolworth & Co.
Cozilka was a brand produced by B. N. & H. Ltd. B. N. & H. Ltd. were Brough, Nicholson and Hall of Leek, Staffordshire. The company was founded in 1812 as a silk and artificial silk thread producer. They became famous throughout the textile world as very high quality silk fabric and thread manufacturers. Cozilka is probably either silk or artificial silk, and the name was created to be a imitation of Dewhurst's Sylko trade name.
Bleu Ton Sur Ton
Anyone who follows my photostream knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces of haberdashery. I usually focus on Dewhurst’s Sylko spools, but I also have spools from many other manufacturers which have interesting and beautiful graphics on their heads. For this photograph I have a spool of Glista silk substitute machine twist from the 1930s and a spool of Cozilka machine twist from the 1920s. Some time ago, I went fabric shopping at a specialist shop that has a particularly wonderful range of unusual fabrics that they sell by the quarter metre (just enough for my purposes). Amongst other pieces I bought this beautiful hand dyed pale blue pleated wool crêpe which I have used to accessorise my two spools and two lovely cobalt blue glass Art Deco buttons from the 1920s.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 17th of May is “ton sur ton”. “Ton sur ton” is a French expression that we can translate as “tone on tone”; that's when there are two (or more) assembled items of the same colour, but not the same shade (tint, hue). In this example, the spools and the buttons are all shades of blue, but the shades are darker than that of the pale blue crêpe background. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
I could find very little about Glista Bright Machine Twist other than an advertisement from an English Du Barry patterns magazine from 1939. The advertisement says: “Be sure and sew with Glista, the best machine twist for woollens or cotton fabrics – strong and silky – works perfectly for machine or hand sewing. 100-yard reels – look for the name on the reels.” I know Glista Bright Machine Twist was produced in Britain, and I know it was sold through F. W. Woolworth & Co.
Cozilka was a brand produced by B. N. & H. Ltd. B. N. & H. Ltd. were Brough, Nicholson and Hall of Leek, Staffordshire. The company was founded in 1812 as a silk and artificial silk thread producer. They became famous throughout the textile world as very high quality silk fabric and thread manufacturers. Cozilka is probably either silk or artificial silk, and the name was created to be a imitation of Dewhurst's Sylko trade name.