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chocolatepotI haven't posted any links to my other blog lately. I think I get worried that nobody cares so I don't want to post them too often or something?
Anyway, under the pretext of trying to determine the exact places of wool and linen in the fabric (ho ho) of society for my thesis, I put up posts on both of them, each containing a chronological list of quotes from eighteenth century sources that refer to linen or wool stuff (that's a thing, "wool stuff"). I need to do silk, cotton, and muslin, and try to find some references to finer wool, like glazed or brocaded or something.
The post I just put up this evening is a ridiculously long one on Elizabeth Canning, who came up in the wool stuff post and a print of whom I noticed on the wall in a painting. Writing up an essay on her seemed like a really good idea at the time but man I'm super tired now. Tl;dr version: she claimed to have been abducted but it turned out that the people she accused had nothing to do with it and she was convicted and transported for perjury, and nobody knows what actually happened to her.
Anyway, under the pretext of trying to determine the exact places of wool and linen in the fabric (ho ho) of society for my thesis, I put up posts on both of them, each containing a chronological list of quotes from eighteenth century sources that refer to linen or wool stuff (that's a thing, "wool stuff"). I need to do silk, cotton, and muslin, and try to find some references to finer wool, like glazed or brocaded or something.
The post I just put up this evening is a ridiculously long one on Elizabeth Canning, who came up in the wool stuff post and a print of whom I noticed on the wall in a painting. Writing up an essay on her seemed like a really good idea at the time but man I'm super tired now. Tl;dr version: she claimed to have been abducted but it turned out that the people she accused had nothing to do with it and she was convicted and transported for perjury, and nobody knows what actually happened to her.
