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Normally used for paper, I've been known to use them to keep covers on my reflectors when the zippers broke, and to hold up backgrounds for photos because I only have two hands...
I am very honored and extremely pleased to hear from the customer who purchased my snap fastener "wedding rings" that they were REALLY USED for the wedding ceremony! Totally normal wedding with such alternative rings! Prague, Czech Republic, 2011 - Wedding rings, 2pc.: 10$
File name: 10_03_003681b
Binder label: Special Cards: Clothes
Title: Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye. Something new and startling, in the royal pie. And if you would discover what makes the sovereign jump, just turn the picture over and you will see that hump? [back]
Created/Published: Phila. [i. e. Philadelphia] ; N. Y. ; Chicago : Ketterlinus
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 14 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards; Embossed prints
Subject: Kings; Pies; Fasteners
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Richardson and De Long Bros.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Photo of my new laces taking for Our Daily Challenge: Fastener
I will be wearing these shoes tomorrow when I do my first leg of the Portland to Coast Relay Walk. I plan to do the 4.92 miles in about an hour. Wish me lucky!
Demolition of what remained of the former 'Carr Fastener Co' factory on Pinfold Lane, Stapleford in November 2015. Carr Fastner's were manufacturers of small components in metal and plastic for the car, radio and furniture industries. The company had been been established in the early early 20th Century. Today, housing and an Aldi supermarket stand on the site today.
45/52 for the group 2025 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: S is for Snap
The official name for these is a "plastic side release fastener", but that's a bit of a mouthful and I think of them as snap fasteners because of the very satisfying "Snap!" they make when you close them.
The perpetually warped gate fastener on my studio deck hasn't closed for years. I'm sure it is because of being thrust back and forth by ocean winds...The rust is fabulous...and the denim blue sky beyond is perfect for today. #cy365#fastener
CSXT 1152 passes through the industrial area along Commonwealth Ave. with a single tank car for the Triangle Fastener Corporation. The wire rolls in the background were also brought in by rail (see the gondola poking out from behind the cars) and belong to the Adcom Wire Company.
Today I paid a visit to Tallaght but as the rain became very heavy I had to give up taking photographs however I do plan to visit again in the very near future. Because of the rain I decided to have lunch at captain America's … the staff had the following legend on their t-shirts "Born To Serve", I really do hope that it was the Captain rather than the staff who was born to serve.
Sometime before his death in 792AD, St Mael Ruain founded a monastery that was to become famous for a number of reasons. The Stowe Missal was written in this monastery about 800AD and numerous religious scholars travelled great distances to the area to study. In fact, both Tallaght and Finglas were revered as centres of learning at the time and were referred to as the 'Eyes of Ireland'.
Unfortunately the monastery was destroyed by the Vikings in 811AD. The Church of Ireland parish of St Mael Ruain is built on the site of Mael Ruain's monastery. Commenced in 1829, it was designed by the City Architect, John Semple (1829-42) and the old church still remains with its high rectangular tower.
Today, Tallaght is the capital of the new administrative county of South Dublin. The River Poddle meanders through Tymon Park, which, with some fine water features provides cosy residence for large colonies of wildfowl. Extensive new woodland planting has enhanced a lot of fine walks in the park too. The Sean Walsh Memorial Park is another fine landscaped area.
A multi-level shopping complex - The Square in Tallaght was a welcome addition to the local community. Located about forty-five minutes southwest of Dublin city center, it is linked to Dublin by several high frequency bus routes and the excellent Luas tram service.
While no plan was formally adopted, Tallaght was laid out as a new town, as set out in the 1967 Myles Wright masterplan for Greater Dublin (this proposed four self-contained "new towns" - at Tallaght, Clondalkin, Lucan and Blanchardstown - all of which were at that time villages surrounded by extensive open lands, with some small settlements). Many of the social and cultural proposals in this plan were ignored by the Dublin local authorities, and contrary to planners' suggestions, Tallaght and the other "new towns" were not provided with adequate facilities. Characterised by the same problems associated with poorly planned fringe areas of many European cities, during the 1970s and 1980s Tallaght became synonymous with suburban mismanagement.
While it was absorbed into the larger suburban area of Dublin (including becoming the postal district Dublin 24 in the late 1980s), Tallaght has developed a distinctive identity, arising largely from its rapid growth during recent decades, and now has a thriving local arts, cultural, sports, and economic outlook.
Tallaght's Civic Square contains the seat of the local authority, County Hall, a newly renovated and well-equipped library facility, a theatre building and a "cutting edge" 4-storey arts centre named RUA RED (which opened on 5 February 2009). Along with other local libraries and arts groups, it also has another theatre building, and a homegrown youth theatre company. It is also the home to the Tallaght Swim Team, Tallaght Rugby Club , the National Basketball Arena, Shamrock Rovers F.C., and several notable martial arts schools and
File name: 10_03_003683b
Binder label: Special Cards: Clothes
Title: See that hump? It contains something for you. [back]
Created/Published: Phila. [i. e. Philadelphia] : Geo. S. Harris & Sons, Lith.
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 15 x 8 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards; Embossed prints
Subject: Men; Accessories (Clothing & dress); Fasteners
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Wooden plugs, carefully glued in place over the fastening underneath them, project from the larch planks of the 16-foot Whitehall being built for the BBC. You'll notice the grain in the plug is aligned with the grain in the plank. What's a bit more difficult to see is that the fasteners are staggered a bit - not placed in a straight line - so as not to split the grain of the frame.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) asked the Boat School to build three traditionally-built Whitehalls as replicas of the boats used by John Wesley Powell and his group of explorers during their first-ever descent of the Colorado River in 1869. The BBC will film a reenactment of the voyage later in 2013.
Students at the School are building one 16-foot Whitehall, the "Scout Boat", and two 21-foot Whitehalls. Though Powell launched four Whitehalls onto the river in 1869, one, the 21-foot "No Name", was lost to the river shortly after the descent began.
The white oak from which the boats are constructed was supplied by Newport Nautical Timbers www.newportnauticaltimbers.com/ . The 16-foot boat will be planked in larch from eastern Washington, which is as close as it is possible to come to the original white pine planking used on that boat.
Whitehalls are the iconic American pulling boat.
They emerged in New York City and, possibly, shortly thereafter in Boston in the 1830's. It is thought the name derives from Whitehall Street in New York City, though no one is sure. By the mid-19th century, they could be found anywhere there was a sizeable body of water - the East Coast, the Great Lakes, and the Pacific Coast at San Francisco all boasted boatbuilders turning out Whitehalls.
The boats were usually used under oars and occasionally sail as fast harbor ferries and the boat used to take harbor pilots out to meet inbound sailing ships. They have a fine reputation as fast, easy-rowing vessels that are capable of carrying a great deal of weight.
Nearly all Whitehalls were carvel-built with white cedar planking on an oak backbone with oak frames. (Carvel planking means that the planks butted up against each other, edge to edge, which results in a smooth hull). The finer boats were highlighted with a bright sheer plank (the top plank) varnished to catch one's eye.
There is surprisingly little known about the boats used by the 1869 Powell Expedition, the first to descend the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. We do know that the Powell Expedition boats were built in Chicago IL to Powell's specifications.
It's known that the EMMA DEAN, or the "Scout Boat" as Powell called it was 16 feet long and planked in white pine, that the other boats (MAID OF THE CANON, KITTY CLYDE's SISTER and NO NAME) were 21 feet long and planked in white oak with twice the number of frames and doubled stems and stern posts. (NO NAME was lost to the river shortly after Powell began the descent, though her crew survived).
There are no complete descriptions of the boats themselves, no pictures, and only a few scattered references made to the boats in the surviving journals and records of the Expedition.
The three boats we are building for the BBC are being constructed to the best information available, using the general scantlings provided by John Gardner's historical work, extent plans, our significant experience in building Whitehalls over our 32 years, and the historical data available to us.
The boats will be completed by mid-July, 2013.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades. If you're interested in our building a boat for you, please feel free to give us a call.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
I have three photos I like for this weeks challenge and will decide at the last minute which to upload.
Shown is an old auto mechanics trick to remove stubborn fasteners with a screwdriver. Also, if it is a slot screw fastener (and many Monotype fasteners are like this) an auto mechanic will get better engagement of a rusty or crud-filled slot with a dab of valve grinding compound. This is an abrasive paste that helps work the screwdriver blade into the slot.
No need to go all the way to Home Depot or a hardware store. A wide variety is available for free on a nearby utility pole.
Her capelet has been taken off (by undoing the Velcro fastener in the front). Here it is laying by her feet.
My new Snow White Animator Doll has been fully deboxed. She is free standing, and is photographed from all angles. When I first saw these new Animator dolls, I was not sure that I wanted to get a whole new set of them, as I have all the dolls in the original series (released in 2011). Plus I they were without their plush sidekicks, and I didn't like the glitter on the new outfits. However, I was won over when I saw them in person.
In particular, Snow White's new outfit, with the red velvet capelet, is really cute. The blouse is almost the same as the original one, but the skirt is now a deeper yellow, and has dark yellow flowers in glitter. Her shoes are also a deeper yellow, matching the color of her new skirt. She is missing the red cape of the original doll.
When I deboxed her, I found out that her hair is significantly improved over last year. After I removed the hairnet, the hair was nicely styled with gentle curls, and I didn't feel a need to make it neater. It is very soft to the touch. However, I would not recommend trying to comb or brush it. Also her glitter is glued very securely on her dress, and has not shed at all. This doll is also more sturdy than the one I deboxed from 2011, as she is not so pigeon-toed, and free stands very stably.
Product information from the US Disney Store website:
Disney Animators' Collection Snow White Doll - 16''
$24.95
Item No. 6070040580901P
I'm Wishing
Princess Snow White is reimagined as a little girl, who from the very beginning was always ''the fairest of them all.'' This updated edition is gowned in a glittering costume with velour capelet.
Magic in the details...
Celebrating the heritage of classic Disney animation, our young renditions of your favorite Disney Princesses were originally created under the guidance of the Walt Disney Animation Studio's most renowned talents, bringing the characters to life in the most creative and authentic way possible. These newly updated editions are costumed in a beautiful new dress by Disney Store artists.
•Snow White is outfitted in her iconic dress with blue bodice and puff sleeves
•Glitter filigree on skirt
•Faux fur capelet
•Satin headband with bow
•Delicate lace trim on collar and socks
•Molded shoes
•Inspired by Walt Disney's animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
•Comes in a display box featuring character sketches by the animators
•Part of the Disney Animators' Collection, each doll sold separately
The bare necessities
•Ages 3+
•Plastic/polyester
•16'' H
•Imported
Safety
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.