At 07:36 PM 12/3/2005, you wrote:
[snip]
I am glad that I asked why not. Though the issue wavers off the beaten path
I have come to understand why you and some others do not use dyed linen for
outerwear.
My perspective is that linen degrades faster then wool and therefore is one
of the reasons that extent garments made of linen have not been found yet in
the Medieval Western Europe. You also have the garments used until rags and
then sometimes became paper.
Anyhow, this has been an interesting and informative discussion.
Thank you,
De
The issue is not that linen degrades faster than wool, but that the
two fabrics survive under different conditions. What preserves wool
(acidic conditions like the bog burials) literally dissolves linen;
what preserves linen (basic, anaerobic conditions, like the Swiss
lake deposits), destroys wool. About the only way both would survive
would be to find them in extremely dry, arid conditions (which could
be from a hot dry climate, like Egypt, or a cold dry climate, like
Urumchi) or in frozen sites, like some of the fantastic sites in
Mongolia (can't remember the names offhand, and the books have hidden
themselves).
Joan Jurancich
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