SC - What Would Have Been Your Job in Medieval Times?
Etain1263@aol.com
Etain1263 at aol.com
Fri May 26 15:46:00 PDT 2000
It's horse hair. There was a longish debate about strainers and their
construction on another list about three years ago as part of a discourse on
niallbinding from Gunnora the Viking Answer Lady.
Bear
> In a message dated 5/26/00 10:15:08 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
> JGedney at dictaphone.com writes:
>
> << I think I remember a reference to Strainers being made of
> Horsetail,
> If it is the animal hair they are talking about, Horse tail
> is probably the
> stongest hair that would have been available in sufficient lengths.
> I do not really know about the use of horsehair in strainer
> manufacture.
> However, I can attest to the strength and durability of
> horsehair, even when
> wet. Very plausable useage would be in strainers.
> <clipped>
>
> Horsehair is more likely to have been used than Horsetail.
>
> Cheers,
> Isabeau
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