The Potato Museum on potato beetles:
In the 1870s the presence of the beetle was so much a part of the Eastern scene that for a brief time ladies black and yellow-striped evening capes were the fashion. And a joke of the period had potato beetles studying mailing lists of seed companies to find out who had ordered seed potatoes.
2 replies on “how tater bug mandolins got their name”
very funny, never thought about the design of their clothing came from potato beetles. Well thats how creativity works.
[…] brought my old tater bug mandolin to the meeting with the artist, a young french woman. We met up at a forgotten block that feels […]