{"id":176,"date":"2010-10-09T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/2010\/10\/09\/the-mother-lode\/"},"modified":"2010-10-09T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T18:01:00","slug":"the-mother-lode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/the-mother-lode\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mother Lode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21977945@N02\/5065683410\/\" title=\"twist by jefferytailor, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4132\/5065683410_0afe78a4d4.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"twist\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The granddaughter of a tailor was selling vintage bolts of cloth and buttons on the internet recently and I noticed she had some thread.  Regular readers are familiar with the difficulty I sometimes have in getting silk buttonhole twist, particularly good stuff, so I told her I would take everything she had.  And she had a fair amount.  Some of it is from Belding Corticelli, who used to make a really excellent silk buttonhole twist.  But not anymore-  the spools are stamped State Tailors 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Am I really getting excited over some old thread?      <\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes.<\/p>\n<p>I need to get out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The granddaughter of a tailor was selling vintage bolts of cloth and buttons on the internet recently and I noticed she had some thread. Regular<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/the-mother-lode\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buttonhole-twist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}