And the way I remember it, he attributed to rise in paper production
to the increased popularity of underwear, esp underbreeches, which
meant a lot of discarded soiled linen--with the chamberlye already
in, so to speak.
--Ruth Anne
On Dec 14, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Andrew T Trembley wrote:
On Dec 14, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Onaree Berard wrote:
On 12/11/06, Gail & Scott Finke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I remember the television program "Connections" from my youth
saying that
after the Black Plague paper production soared because of the huge
quantities of linen available from dead people. I don't know if
that's
really true.
Gail Finke
Actually it was the survivors spending their inheritace and when they
(the linen) wore out it was perfect for the printing industry thus
the
bone man became the rag and bone man or something to that effect.
On the other side of the equation, mummy wrappings were (for a
time) a popular source of cloth for rag paper. At one point, a food-
borne illness outbreak was tracked to butchers using unbleached rag-
paper from mummy wrappings to wrap meat.
--
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