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AnnetteLogue
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Joined: 2/28/10 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 27 |
 Topic: HELP!!Posted: 5/18/10 at 7:35pm |
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Okay...I've got to create 20 gifts, in various array, of being opened, stacked on the set so an actor can back into them. Now...my dilemma is...what in the devil did they wrap presents in or with in 1740's???
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Annette Logue
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JoeMc
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Joined: 3/13/06 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 832 |
Posted: 5/18/10 at 9:43pm |
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Well seeing there are 20 presents they would range from brown paper, cheese cloth to dress material & tied up with anything from jute string to coloured ribons, depending on the givers pocket & station in life.
Edited by JoeMc - 5/18/10 at 10:59pm |
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JazPainter
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Joined: 3/16/10 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 15 |
Posted: 5/24/10 at 3:58pm |
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I'm with JoeMc - in movies set from that time, they always wrap gifts with brown paper tied with simple string (though, I also agree that people would of used bits of old fabric and the like as well). Nice, cheap, and easy!!
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BelizeAA
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Posted: 5/25/10 at 8:55am |
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YUP- Joe and Jaz are correct. Gifts were wrapped in paper w/string or fabric, depending on your station/class levels. If they had money-colored fabrics, if a great deal of money- Fabrics with stripes were highly popular, as was colored ribbon or lace, or a bow fashioned out of ribbon. |
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AnnetteLogue
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Posted: 5/27/10 at 9:59pm |
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Thanks everyone!! Paper, ribbon and cloth it is!!
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JoeMc
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Posted: 5/27/10 at 10:29pm |
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By the way brownpaper, in those days, was made from old rope, jute, flax & canvas/cotton fibres.
Also it was a cure all for cuts, bruises & sprains. Applied soaked in vinegar, honey or tar. |
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AnnetteLogue
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Posted: 5/28/10 at 9:54am |
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I actually have some thinner "grey-brown" paper that has speckles and such in it which looks like old rice paper that I am using.
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