At 10:14 -0400 Earth time on 051031 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
Ron Parker graced us with: As for spinning and weaving with it, well it just doesn't work, I tried. There are native bast fibers and some tree barks that can be worked but I don't know of any evidence that the Timucua worked in fiber. It seems most clothing was animal skins, decorated with feathers, shells. Maybe in the Spanish moss reference a basic leather outfit was decorated with moss. Good call on the obscure tribe--but at least we know *something* about the Timucua. The locals here were the Apalachees. They pretty much died out by the early 1700's. --Ann
Hi Ann, but that was from user [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than me. I have never spun Spanish moss nor woven the resulting yarn, and promise never to do so. :-)}
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