[Sca-cooks] available merchandise, was things they dont explain about Pennsic

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

A strick is, um, a bunch, sort of, of line flax, almost ready to spin. 
You  take this flax and dress the distaff, and then you can spin.

Hardly anyone was selling it... I had taken a flax spinning class, and 
had thought this was one place I'd be able to get it. Well... there was 
more wool roving, and silk caps (silk prepared in the modern way for 
spinning, rather than being reeled off the cocoon, as was done,) and 
stuff like that, but I didn't need it. It was one of those vendors, 
though, and a few more had a couple of them, but sold out early.

Don't remember the name of the cat toy vendor - Devra knows them, she 
told me about them. They had all kinds of stuffed creatures (I'm not 
sure I would call them all animals...) and other bizarreness. Not even 
faintly medieval, but my cat didn't care... One must always bear gifts 
to the loved ones one has temporarily abandoned.

AEllin


Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
>>What's a strick of flax??? 
> 
> 
> Heck, who SELLS a strick of flax at Pennsic?
> 
> -- Jadwiga, who is going to get back to spinning flax real soon now, 
> uh-huh!
>