Thank you for sharing the article. It was interesting to look over. Susan Oates
> Early textiles in Scotland > Posted by: "Fred and Grace Hatton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] fredgrace > Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:26 pm (PDT) > > Holly, you are probably familiar with this survey of early textiles in > Scotland from pre-Roman times to the 1700's. The opening page > indicates > that most of the woolen fabrics and fibers were found in bogs and > are dark > brown because of that. Aside from poorly preserved grave finds, the > only > other textile finds would have been in connection with metal > objects and > their oxidation both preserved bits of textiles and made it > impossible to > determine much about the composition of the fibers. > http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/ > vol_086/86_001_029.pdf > > Grace > Fred and Grace Hatton > Hawley Pa ----- Susan L. Oates from her iMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson, AZ, USA
