On 4/19/2011 11:31 AM, Stacey Dunleavy wrote:
The shoddy manufacturing is interesting - I was thinking pre-industrial revolution. I can't comprehend that cloth that had been painstakingly spun and woven would be simply stuffed inside a pillow. My modern mindset keeps thinking that the thrifty Medieval or Elizabethan housewife would at least save them for clothing repairs, or consoldated with other scraps for blankets.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "garbage, carbage" and possibly "cabbage" were used in the 17th century to refer to stuffing (or interfacting?) materials.
Herrick Hesper. (Hazl.) I. 79 "Upon some Women, Pieces, patches, ropes of haire, In-laid garbage ev'rywhere." II. 325 Upon Lupes, "His credit cannot get the inward carbage for his cloathes as yet."
Regarding cabbage as a perk, early 18th century: "Taylors are so called, because of their‥Love of that Vegetable. The Cloth they steal and purloin‥is also called Cabbage." "Your taylor instead of shreads, cabages whole yards of cloath."
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