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The drain of my bathroom sink smelled mildewy, so I poured in some vinegar and let it sit overnight. The mildewy smell went away, but now the drain emits a foul vinegary smell. I'm going to pour something else down it tonight.
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I was out shopping today and passed a new consignment store. I went in to look what they have, and saw a very nice-looking rug. It was expensive, but I'm not sure how much a rug like that usually costs. I didn't see any tag saying what the fiber content was; if it is silk or wool I wouldn't want it. So after getting home I did some web searches, and came across this:
It will take one girl about half a year to make a 2×3ft carpet of 300 lines (90,000knots per square foot), 1.5 years to weave a 2×3ft silk carpet of 500 lines(250,000knots per square foot), two years to knot a 2×1.5 feet silk carpet with 800 lines(640,000knots per square foot) and 3 years to make a 1.2×1.5 feet silk carpet with 1000 lines(1000,000 knots per square foot). The silk thread used to knot top quality carpet is as thin as a hair. When knotting, weavers even need to use magnifier. The work is so harmful to weavers' eyes that they seldom can make the second same piece. So this kind of silk carpet is named "soft gold".
Good gosh, I wouldn't want a hand-made rug; the thought of someone tediously and painstakingly working for years just to produce a small portion of a rug makes me shudder. If I had a rug like that in my house, I'd feel guilty just looking at it. Surely the rug in the store was machine made, but I'm still not sure about the fiber.
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I also went to Bed, Bath & Beyond. They have so much neat stuff there! I got some solar-powered lanterns to put in the back yard where it is very dark at night. And some other things. Their website has neat stuff too. I wonder how this thing works - a chess set with LED pieces which glow when they get close to the board.
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I was out shopping today and passed a new consignment store. I went in to look what they have, and saw a very nice-looking rug. It was expensive, but I'm not sure how much a rug like that usually costs. I didn't see any tag saying what the fiber content was; if it is silk or wool I wouldn't want it. So after getting home I did some web searches, and came across this:
It will take one girl about half a year to make a 2×3ft carpet of 300 lines (90,000knots per square foot), 1.5 years to weave a 2×3ft silk carpet of 500 lines(250,000knots per square foot), two years to knot a 2×1.5 feet silk carpet with 800 lines(640,000knots per square foot) and 3 years to make a 1.2×1.5 feet silk carpet with 1000 lines(1000,000 knots per square foot). The silk thread used to knot top quality carpet is as thin as a hair. When knotting, weavers even need to use magnifier. The work is so harmful to weavers' eyes that they seldom can make the second same piece. So this kind of silk carpet is named "soft gold".
Good gosh, I wouldn't want a hand-made rug; the thought of someone tediously and painstakingly working for years just to produce a small portion of a rug makes me shudder. If I had a rug like that in my house, I'd feel guilty just looking at it. Surely the rug in the store was machine made, but I'm still not sure about the fiber.
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I also went to Bed, Bath & Beyond. They have so much neat stuff there! I got some solar-powered lanterns to put in the back yard where it is very dark at night. And some other things. Their website has neat stuff too. I wonder how this thing works - a chess set with LED pieces which glow when they get close to the board.