[Ansteorra] cotton in period
Claude Anthony Penny
cpenny at swbell.net
Thu Sep 21 12:22:53 PDT 2006
I remember reading that the Arabs had a primitive type of a cotton gin.
It was compsed of knots on ropes that was pulled through the cotton
bolls. If I remember, a lot of the cotton was used as weft fibers,
because spinning strong, tight cotton thread was difficult. I believe
that the mixed fabric was used as cheap blanket-type material in Italy.
Cairenn
who has entirely TOO much info about way TOO many fields
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