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ianukSo, talking with one of our "really smart dudes" somehow we got onto fabric and his comment was "well, everyone wore burlap until the italians learned to pound fabric in the Renaissance!" and I lost it....Seriously, boggles my mind that a guy with a PHD could be so out of wack...now if anyone knows about the fabric technique he was talking about, I'd like to know but I ejumacated him a bit on the finer points (ha, ha FINER as in THREAD!!) of textiles and prehistoric/medieval context. Then I sent him on to look at books...cause he asked.
Women's Work: The First 20, 000 Years Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber.
5,000 Years of Textiles by J. Harris
Prehistoric Textiles by EJW Barber
Yeah, need to start working on this class and I do think Estrella would be a great place for this to preview at....yup.
Women's Work: The First 20, 000 Years Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber.
5,000 Years of Textiles by J. Harris
Prehistoric Textiles by EJW Barber
Yeah, need to start working on this class and I do think Estrella would be a great place for this to preview at....yup.
