The designs in the slip appear to have been created through a negative resist technique, in which a lighter-colored underslip shows through a darker overlying slip.

Furthermore, περ is productive in the Italiot texts, presumably as a learnedism rather than a popular survival.

The soothest shepherd that e'er pip'd on plains

God, what an unbelievable fustercluck, she thought, shaking her head from side to side on her pile of pillows as she remembered Sophie's tear-streaked face as she ran down the block and out of sight.