[Sca-cooks] Identify embroidered fruit?
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Wed Oct 20 18:30:30 PDT 2010
It looks a great deal like the English holly that bit me today.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pgvet.bc.ca/sites/site-1677/images/4a3b8a8e-7f00-0001-60ae-1e899bea623e.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pgvet.bc.ca/site/view/66718_PoisonousPlantListing.pml%3Bjsessionid%3D1fm331d2evlki&h=311&w=400&sz=39&tbnid=7ojwPd0GLNDuYM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3DEnglish%2Bholly&zoom=1&q=English+holly&hl=en&usg=__SQh52wmIV18XP151sz4iCEKEXOQ=&sa=X&ei=vZa_TMWUI4SBlAelmpHiBw&ved=0CCgQ9QEwAw
If you can't get that to work, google English holly.
Bear
>I got a query about a picture I took of an embroidered slip at the
> Victoria & Albert Museum last year. As fate would have it, I was in
> Bath at the time, so I could neither check the label I photographed
> nor pop into the V&A. Now that I'm home, I've checked the info I
> have, but it only says "embroidered slip, silks on canvas, yadda
> yadda". No clue what kind of fruit (berry, I think) it's meant to
> depict, but the shape of the leaf is distinct enough that a
> knowledgeable person might be able to tell. Link to closeup photo
> below. Anyone? Bueller?
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/raela/4239774306/
>
> Brighid ni Chiarain
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