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15 September 2010

 
Voluminous handmade silk snake shirt I wrote about ages ago but just got myself decked out in a minute ago. I'm a snake in Chinese whatsit. A er... I dunno, water snake? *looks at the lake* Yes, must be a water snake :-D

You can tell how old it is because it was made by this textile artist around this time:

From a prehistoric Seattle Times article:

She doesn't believe in ghosts and she's never been to a seance, but when the chance to design costumes for the movie "Ghost'' appeared, Barbary Stenderu believed in herself enough to say yes.

Stenderu, a local textile and clothing designer with a shop near the Pike Place Market, designed some of the clothing Whoopi Goldberg wears in "Ghost'' and the cloth that covers the seance table in the movie.

In the film, playing at several area theaters, Goldberg plays a charlatan psychic who discovers her powers are authentic when she starts communicating with "ghost'' Patrick Swayze.

Stenderu, who usually designs one-of-a-kind fabrics and clothing, was asked to design a jacket and blouse plus 30 yards of fabric for the seance tablecloth, draperies and pillows in Goldberg's apartment.

"I had never done two pieces that were exactly alike before,'' she says. ". . . I had to make several exact duplicates of each one so there would be spares in case some were damaged."

Update: Perhaps Barbary Stendaru is Darbury Stendaru - would seem strange that two such similarly named women are Seattle textile artists making one-of-a-kind painted clothing. If not, maybe they are sisters. DS made a MtG card of Medusa - Coils of the Medusa - more snakes, more collectable cards.

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*Fire Dog barks at Water Snake!*

A lovely snakey shirt! Very becoming, and fits perfectly.
 
It's one-size fits-none - like a pup tent.
 
Also know as Ima Woodsnake.
 
You are a wood snake, Salazar? Snake round-up!
 
Indeed. It explains why it felt so swell slitherin around on the theater floorboards.
 
you snakes is creepsy. i thot i wuz a chicken/rooster? for years based on placemats in chinese restaurants. then i found out the sign changes in february, not at our western new year, and i'm a monkeeeee! strange to say, my life became easier knowing that, and more fun, too!
 
You seem like you'd be a monkey, lol. *slithers away*
 
keeping a nervous eye on that snake...they have their own weird sense of humor and morality!
LT
 

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