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

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