Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than a pile of brightly colored fragments had been transformed into the silk irises, forget-me-not, violets and… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
