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{ Sunday, July 6, 2003 }

Apple Writing

From A Moorish Calendar:

"To make apples grow with writings and patterns on them: take an apple when it is just full grown and about to ripen and write or paint on its skin whatever you wish, using ink or wool-dyes, egg-white, pottery-glazes, or liquid pitch. Write with a broad-pointed instrument and cover the apple with a net so that dew or rain, or the rubbing of fruit and leaves, will not erase the design. Leave the fruit until it is quite ripe, when you may pick it and wash away the ink so that the design is exposed in shades of white or green, thus producing a pleasing effect. The same may be done with plums, red or black."

(via Ramage)

LINK | 7:48 PM | TB

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{ COMMENTS }

bad link yo!

| July 6, 2003 8:50 PM

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Thanks, fixed.

Caterina | July 6, 2003 8:54 PM

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I like to eat apples, no to drow on it, but the idea is very interesting...

;)

Zerzia | July 7, 2003 8:51 AM

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Sounds interestin' but...i want to see
some pictures of that.

what about oranges, here, where i am
is a citric field.

jairo | July 7, 2003 5:29 PM

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The Moors were the cleverest people. I can't think of any other fruit-related examples, apart from the fact that they brought the fig to Europe, a very good and clever thing too... but here's something else:

The caliph of Cordoba had at his palace, Madinat az-Zahra, a hall whose "roofs and walls were constructed out of sheets of variously tinted marble so fine as to be translucent. In the center of the room stood a large shallow bowl containing mercury: it stood on a base which could be rocked, and it was so placed as to receive sunlight from a number of surrounding apertures. When the caliph wished to impress or alarm anyone who had been granted an audience he would sign to a slave to rock the bowl and the sunbeams reflected from the surface of the mercury would flash and whizz round the room like lightning." (Fletcher, Moorish Spain)

Carlos | July 8, 2003 10:47 AM

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