Orts Jars

I noticed the increasing number of Orts Jars ( jars full of beautiful coloured threads), I may even start one myself. I thought I would share my recent discovery of the history of such a jar. In a Museum of Witch-craft, Boscastle, Cornwal, U.K; there is a very old jar with a collection of threads which was used to confuse the evil spirits.

Claire

Tags: Ort, jars, thread, yarn

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Permalink Reply by Carol-Anne on January 13, 2011 at 4:34

You are welcome, Chris

If you click on 'Reply' underneath a comment, a window will open that contains the comment in italics, preceeded by 'Someone said' (as you see below). You can edit that comment (as I did in my last response) or delete it entirely. There is an orange 'Add Reply' button below the window which seems to attract my attention more than the window so I have clicked that before typing my response and simply repeated the entire post many a time :LOL:

After clicking 'Add reply' you get 15 minutes to edit your comment, so I usually click on 'Edit' and type my response before anyone notices :-D

If you click on 'Reply to this Discussion' at the top or bottom of the page, a blank window will open for you to type your comment into.

I'm not sure if any of us will every be fully in tune with how NING works and if we do, they will change it all again. Besides we are all friends here, we don't mind the occasional repeated post :-)

Chris Free said:

It must be blindingly clear that I have no idea what I am doing - I really just wanted to say 'thank you' to Carol, but somehow managed to repeat her entire post. Please accept my thanks, Carol, now I at least know what 'ort' means.

Cheers

Chris

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Permalink Reply by sharonb on January 13, 2011 at 19:53

Carol Anne - well said I was going to say more or less the same thing but the most important bit is the bit about being friends as I would hate for someone not to respond because they felt they might make a 'mistake' - the odd repeat is simply not a problem

Carol-Anne said:

I'm not sure if any of us will every be fully in tune with how NING works and if we do, they will change it all again. Besides we are all friends here, we don't mind the occasional repeated post :-)

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Permalink Reply by Gina E. on January 15, 2011 at 9:05

I'm glad someone else asked what the word orts means. I thought it was an acronym for 'odd random threads' or something! Never thought of looking it up on Google, but I have now.

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Permalink Reply by Kay Warner on January 15, 2011 at 12:42

I thought it might be an abbreviation for "I ought to be able to do something with this"!

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Permalink Reply by Bridged Hall on January 16, 2011 at 5:47

lol - that thought runs through my head all the time

Kay Warner said:

I thought it might be an abbreviation for "I ought to be able to do something with this"!

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Permalink Reply by Di Watson on February 17, 2011 at 16:53

Thanks for that, Claire. I was wondering how orts jars came to be! I'm also glad to hear they confuse the evil spirts because those spirits really enjoy tangling my fingers up and making them clumsy, LOL. I've just started mine so maybe it's not full enough to do me any good yet, but I think I'll talk to it and see if that helps ;)

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Sletta on February 19, 2011 at 15:08

Hmmm...

Hi I'm a new member on Stitchin. I belong to this crazy group called a TUSAL on Daffycat's blogsite. I'm wondering if she's running the same one you belonged to earlier?

http://itsdaffycat.blogspot.com/2011/01/totally-useless-welcome.html

It may be???

Take care....Lynn S.

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Permalink Reply by sharonb on February 22, 2011 at 14:57

Just posted a pic of my Orts Jar. I have even thought of how I am going to use them at the end of the year but I am going to keep that a secret.

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Permalink Reply by Laura J. Bezzeg on March 4, 2011 at 23:22

I hadn't thought of a jar to display, I keep my orts in baggies. I actually save them to use in making Temari, I can use very short pieces of threads to make "teenies". They are about the size of a quarter. If interested you can see a few in my blog from February 17 at http://www.threadthatbinds.blogspot.com/

I can't stand to throw away good threads, especially when some are so very expensive!!