Finding Treasure in Handkerchiefs
Recently I decided to clean out the master bedroom closet. It is a long narrow walk in closet and the coldest place in the house in the winter. It was now or wait until spring. I began with the usual – going through the hanging clothes and then the shoes and last the boxes that never got unpacked from the last move. That was when the fun began! When I opened a small box of handkerchiefs I could almost smell the lilac fragrance my grandmother was so found of. There was a stack of my mother’s and grandmother’s beautiful handkerchiefs I had forgotten about. Both women loved the femininity of the embroidery and lace on batiste and fine linen fabric. They never went anywhere without a clean ironed square in their purses. Finding those handkerchiefs got me to thinking about handkerchiefs in general and I did a little research. It seems that King Richard II of England , who reigned from 1377 to 1399, was re...