SC - "throrow a straynour" - A query about horsetail

[CBlackwill at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/30/00 10:42:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, LrdRas at aol.com 
writes:

> << So why would you want such an item today? It would seem like a strainer 
of
>   that style made with monofilament line or some other polymer would be
>   stronger and less effected by humidity than horsehair.>>
>  
>  Because it is a superior product. When cleaned and stored properly it 
>  literally lasts for years. The horsehair have scales which polymers do not 
>  allowing much finer material to be removed from the liquid poured through 
>  them. 
>   

And, besides, I don't think polymers or monofilament fishing lines had been 
invented by the end of the Middle Ages...:P

Balthazar of Blackmoor

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