![]() ![]() The exceptions are double page spreads that serve to highlight the story's theme. Most of the compositions are contained on single pages. The illustrations contain a variety of smooth and course textures, as well as varied prints and patterned fabrics. The texture produced by conte crayon or pencil on rough-surfaced paper replicates the feeling of fabrics. When color is used, it serves to highlight or focus on the fabric worn by the central character and on the quilt itself. The effect is one of recollection, or perhaps of fading diary pages. Sepia colored figures are carefully drawn on textured off-white paper. When it becomes a blanket for new generations of children, it really tells a family's story of love, faith and endurance. It becomes a Sabbath tablecloth and a wedding canopy. The quilt is passed along from mother to daughter for four generations. She plans to make a quilt from a basket of old clothes, telling her daughter, "It will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night". Grades K-3.Ī Russian immigrant mother and family arrive in the United States. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But Charles II’s version had diamonds and coloured gems which were hired especially for the princely sum of £500, according to Crown Jewels historian Anna Keay. ![]() He was depicted wearing a crown in the famous 11th century Bayeux Tapestry.Įdward’s crown - considered a holy relic - was used in coronations for hundreds of years.īut it was melted down in the 1600s after the execution of King Charles I by Oliver Cromwell.Īfter Cromwell’s death, with royalty back in fashion, King Charles II commissioned a new set of crown jewels, including the St Edward’s Crown and a new state crown (which he is pictured wearing in the image above).Įdward’s crown is thought to have had very few jewels. It is named after a much earlier version that belonged to the Anglo-Saxon king and saint, Edward the Confessor. ![]() The crown was made for Charles II in 1661. It was not until the 20th century that they were set in the crown permanently. The stones in the crown used to be removable and were hired especially for coronations. ![]() The crown has 444 jewels and gemstones – including expensive sapphires, rubies, amethysts and topaz, although most are light blue and or bluish green aquamarines. ![]() |