25-09-2016, 12:19 PM
Don, Koen,
The detail Don shows certainly looks like three little dancers, even like Dervishes, or Crane dancers and more.
Mrs. Grieves has Persian Pellitory not a single plant but an insect-stunning powder made by combinig the closed flowers of Pyrethrum roseum with those of P.carneum. She says these are both "plants native to the north of Persia".
It would be interesting to know the historical side of things. Obviously a powder like that would have been very useful in preserving fabrics, and paper and so on. But I can't find any reference to when the flowers and/or powder was first imported into western Europe, or when the term "Persian pellitory' was first used.
I'd love to hear more.
The detail Don shows certainly looks like three little dancers, even like Dervishes, or Crane dancers and more.
Mrs. Grieves has Persian Pellitory not a single plant but an insect-stunning powder made by combinig the closed flowers of Pyrethrum roseum with those of P.carneum. She says these are both "plants native to the north of Persia".
It would be interesting to know the historical side of things. Obviously a powder like that would have been very useful in preserving fabrics, and paper and so on. But I can't find any reference to when the flowers and/or powder was first imported into western Europe, or when the term "Persian pellitory' was first used.
I'd love to hear more.
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