[Sca-cooks] Puritans, was: Canadian Friends

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Scarlet could be dyed any color- red was very popular- an expensive dye,
> and worthy of the fine fabric. But it was also dyed blue, dyed in pers,
> which was very expensive ( and derived from woad), and there is also
> mention of brown scarlet.
> Does that help?

Not to ruin the moment of Periodness... but can the use of the term
'scarlet' to mean a weave of cloth be documented to be contemporary with
the Quaker movement?

nitpicking again,

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