A farmerly note on clover. The four leaves are much more common in the "Dutch White" and "Broad Red" types of this plant. I imagine that clovers came here as agricultural plants due to their importance as Nitrogen fixers, so It's likely that these flouncy, tall stemmed annuals / biennials are a lot more common here than the "Wild White" perennial type, although that is also agriculturally important. When I was young, most of the wild white seed was harvested directly from the permanent grasslands of Romney Marsh where centuries of sheep-grazing had caused this perennial, hardy and very small leaved variety to evolve. The bigger leaf, and particularly the darker band showing in your specimen midway between the stem and the margin are the hallmarks of the the more intensively "bred" varieties.
For some reason, the name "haberdashery" associates with pirates in my mind (a phonetic crossover via "swashbuckling" or some other word that presently eludes me, most likely). Loved the piece. People's minds sure hold on to lots of irritating preconceptions. I suspect you might be a much more patient person than me overall. Might have a thing or two to learn there, wot.
Sofi Thanhauser, Worn: "The statutes of the thirteenth-century Parisian tailors' guild reserved cutting cloth for established masters, leaving sewing to subordinate workers called 'valets cousturiers'. Cloth was so expensive that cutting it was a high-risk operation. A faulty stitch can be removed, but a faulty cut can ruin an entire piece of fabric. 'Couturier', which comes from 'coudre', to sew, was thus enshrined as a lower-status occupation than 'tailleur', or tailor, which derives from 'tailler', to cut."
A farmerly note on clover. The four leaves are much more common in the "Dutch White" and "Broad Red" types of this plant. I imagine that clovers came here as agricultural plants due to their importance as Nitrogen fixers, so It's likely that these flouncy, tall stemmed annuals / biennials are a lot more common here than the "Wild White" perennial type, although that is also agriculturally important. When I was young, most of the wild white seed was harvested directly from the permanent grasslands of Romney Marsh where centuries of sheep-grazing had caused this perennial, hardy and very small leaved variety to evolve. The bigger leaf, and particularly the darker band showing in your specimen midway between the stem and the margin are the hallmarks of the the more intensively "bred" varieties.
The one I gave to the tailor was plain green, like most of the ones I've found. I kept this one for myself because it was prettier!
For some reason, the name "haberdashery" associates with pirates in my mind (a phonetic crossover via "swashbuckling" or some other word that presently eludes me, most likely). Loved the piece. People's minds sure hold on to lots of irritating preconceptions. I suspect you might be a much more patient person than me overall. Might have a thing or two to learn there, wot.
Sofi Thanhauser, Worn: "The statutes of the thirteenth-century Parisian tailors' guild reserved cutting cloth for established masters, leaving sewing to subordinate workers called 'valets cousturiers'. Cloth was so expensive that cutting it was a high-risk operation. A faulty stitch can be removed, but a faulty cut can ruin an entire piece of fabric. 'Couturier', which comes from 'coudre', to sew, was thus enshrined as a lower-status occupation than 'tailleur', or tailor, which derives from 'tailler', to cut."