I _think_ the Skraelings wore animal skins; the Inuit the Norse met did. There were bighorn sheep in the Rockies, but that's probably a bit far for an early colony! So yeah, good point; without importing some sheep or bringing in some flax seed (how easy is it to grow flax from seed?) they would have had to get real friendly with furs and leather real fast. But wikipedia says that Columbus brought some on his 2nd voyage (and there were sheep in the Greenland colony) so maybe sheep aren't terribly hard to transport...? And there may have been native hemp, although that may have been a bit further south.
-E House On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > What kinds of fibers would the scraelings have had to weave with? They didn't > have sheep for wool, did they? And linen is an Old World crop and cotton > doesn't grow that far north, as far as I know. I am completely ignorant of > Native American costume from that region, so what would they have made > clothes and blankets out of? _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
