At 10:17 PM 6/29/02 -0400, you wrote: >I usually lurk, but had an inquiry from a customer at a quilt show I went to >recently. He asked about a diary entry his grandmother had made about >spinning 40 "knots" on a particular day. I was unable to tell him what a >knot was in measurement unless it was a skein washed and wound on itself. >Any thoughts? He would like to write a history of his
I remembered seeing references to "knots" in Ulrich's _The Age of Homespun_ There they are, but with no definition. " But only on days of unusual productivity did they use the language of knots and skeins. " This is not very useful, but there it is. Brucie To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
