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Friday, December 14, 2012

Waxed & Salted Balloons (1936)

Rubber balloons dipped in paraffin and sprinkled with salt make ornaments for Christmas Trees.

Popular Mechanics 65. (January 1936).

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abaculi (singular abaculus)

At the blog's 2010 inception, I was looking for a word or phrase to describe a collection of ephemera and visual fragments.

Abaculus (Latin, diminutive of abacus) is a small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements.

With this as one of several working concepts, I found nothing more pleasing and chose the plural form Abaculi to title the blog.

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The inaugural issue features Steve Scafidi, Elizabeth Cooper, Amy Tudor, Gregory Kimbrell, Dana Littlepage Smith, Tarfia Faizullah, Catherine MacDonald, Leslie Shiel, & Emilia Phillips.

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