[Artemisia] SCA Skills in a Modern Plague

[Allen Hall]

Hi Bengta,

7 plus 7 equals 1.  That's interesting!

How did they make sewing thread in the old days?

Does linen grade flax grow in our Kingdom area?  Has anyone gone from flax plant to linen?

Concernng the wood stoves, I expect that much of domestic life would hover around the fireplace in a Artemisian winter!

Thanks for the comments and observations!

Alan

> From: BENGTA1 at aol.com
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:57:15 -0400
> To: artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org
> Subject: [Artemisia]  SCA Skills in a Modern Plague
> 
> The old saying is that it takes 7 spinners to keep a weaver busy.  It  
> takes 7 weavers to keep a tailor busy.  
>  
> I can spin.  I can weave or knit or crochet.  I can push my  sewing machine 
> by hand or rig up a belt and treadle system.  But I cannot  make sewing 
> machine thread.  I would store lots and lots and lots of thread  for my sewing 
> machine. 
>  
> When we bought our house, we picked one with a fireplace upstairs and a  
> wood burning stove downstairs.  That would not be a permanent solution  to 
> heating, but with the wood we have we could keep warm enough for quite a  
> while!  
>  
> YIS
> Bengta
>  
>  
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