His linen, thick with darns, rubbed his skin like a hair shirt.
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In quilling or setting on the lace, endeavour to conceal the darns under the pleats.
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However, he has revealed that he darns his own socks as part of a superstition that he must sport the same pair all season.
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And being so close to the stage I could see the darns in the showgirls' tights, so much for the glamour of Show Biz!
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Clothing was rationed in just the same way as food and Mother was always altering my clothes, patching, turning collars and darning the darns on my socks.
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Then she unfolded her napkin as if to examine the darns, and she really thought of applying herself to this work, counting the threads in the linen.
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Watir Quta (Aymara watiri darner, someone who darns holes in clothes, quta lake, see: Zurcidor, ra "darner lake", also spelled Bater Kkota) is a lake in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the La Paz Department, Inquisivi Province, Quime Municipality. The river Chaka Jawira which connects Watir Quta with the lakes south-east of it flows through the lake. Its waters run to the La Paz River.
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Here a low mortal looks down on the gods from heaven, rather than the other way round. He fills the role of Actaeon, who accidentally saw Diana naked and was changed into a stag and torn apart by his own hounds as punishment. Here though the viewing of Diana is intentional. In the right foreground, Juno practices her lines, while Night, identifiable by her star-spangled headdress, darns a hole in her stocking.
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R. C. MacLeod noted N. Macleod's description of the flag, but observed that it now only contained the "elf spots"—there was then no evidence of any crosses upon what remained of the flag. R. C. MacLeod also observed that several tears in the flag had been carefully mended. The flag was examined in the early 20th century by A. J. B. Wace of the Victoria and Albert Museum, who concluded that the silk was woven in either Syria or Rhodes, and the darns were made in the Near East. It was his opinion that the flag, in its original state, would have been quite precious, possibly a relic like the shirt of a saint.
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In 1900, Merritt wrote that she felt she had not faced much if any discrimination because of her gender, but noted the social pressures which could inhibit a female artist's career, concluding: > The chief obstacle to a woman's success is that she can never have a wife. > Just reflect what a wife does for an artist: Darns the stockings; keeps his > house; writes his letters; visits for his benefit; wards off intruders; is > personally suggestive of beautiful pictures; always an encouraging and > partial critic. It is exceedingly difficult to be an artist without this > time-saving help. A husband would be quite useless. Portrait of her husband, Henry Merritt, 1877 During the 19th century there were a significant number of women who became successful, educated artists, a rarity before that time, except for a few like Angelica Kauffman and Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842).
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