http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2007/07/18/linen/ The blog for Plimoth Plantation's 17 Century embroidered jacket project. Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:44:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2007/07/18/linen/comment-page-1/#comment-2373 David Baeckelandt Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:19:53 +0000 #comment-2373 Just FYI, the word "diaper" is a corruption of "d'yper" (=from Yper/Ieper) - the city in Flanders where that style was created. See: http://books.google.com/books?id=CHASAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA366&lpg=PA366&dq=d'yper,+diaper&source=bl&ots=-O-MuAGzEF&sig=Z4Hdek8CST9pUzgVag4NK4DWr_0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result Just FYI, the word “diaper” is a corruption of “d’yper” (=from Yper/Ieper) – the city in Flanders where that style was created. See: http://books.google.com/books?id=CHASAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA366&lpg=PA366&dq=d‘yper,+diaper&source=bl&ots=-O-MuAGzEF&sig=Z4Hdek8CST9pUzgVag4NK4DWr_0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result

]]> http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2007/07/18/linen/comment-page-1/#comment-570 The Embroiderers Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:13:30 +0000 #comment-570 Great detailed information. Thanks for sharing. Great detailed information. Thanks for sharing.

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