User:PKM

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Projects and Other Stuff This user would rather write new B-class articles than make existing B-class articles into Featured Articles. This user is a member of the Textile Arts WikiProject. This user is a member of the Middle Ages WikiProject. This user is a member of WikiProject Middle-earth. This user is a member of the Fashion WikiProject This user is a member of WikiProject Science Fiction. This user is a member of WikiProject California. This user is a member of the Heraldry and vexillology WikiProject. This user has uploaded 1 featured picture on Wikipedia. This user has been a major contributor to 25 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. 8,000+ This user has made over 8,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

I am a woman of a certain age, as they said in a more gracious time, and I live in California.

I would like to see Wikipedia's articles on costume approach the depth and usefulness of its articles on botany.

I am dubious about the practice of displaying stacks of user tags. (I am also dubious about bumperstickers, for similar reasons.)

I have contributed to these articles.

Hobbits delight in such things, if they are accurate: they like to have books filled with things that they already know, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Prologue, "Concerning Hobbits"

[edit] Housekeeping

Useful links: Template:Infobox Book  · {{WPMA}}  · {{WikiProject Fashion}}  · Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction#Templates  · Wikipedia:Conflict of interest  · History of Western fashion  · {{WPBiography}}  · {{DEFAULTSORT:name}}

[edit] Recent new articles

William Larkin  · Cornelis Ketel  · Textile arts (survey for project)  · Slip (needlework)  · Henry Lyte (botanist)  · Steven van der Meulen  · Troco  · Anna Maria Garthwaite  · Textile design (stub)

[edit] Recent major work on

William Morris#Textiles  · Bess of Hardwick