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Tales From the Fiber Side: Epic Fiber stories from history and myth

Tales From the Fiber Side: Epic Fiber stories from history and myth

著者： Suzy Brown
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Arlene Thayer and Suzy Brown bring you a monthly episode of fiber stories! In each episode we dive down a story filled fibery rabbithole to bring you tales from the the past about fiber heroes, villains, mythical characters, and events that helped shape the fiber world as we know it. We obsessively bring up the fibery past to inspire you with lore and legends, real and mythical, that bring to life the inner lives of spinners, weavers, tapestry makers, and yarn making. This is the other side of fiber, a world in which pirates and privateers smuggle wool across the English channel, where womanly wartime spies knit secrets into garments and send vital information to their allies in their knitwear, where mythical beings monitor your spinning efforts throughout the year and bring judgement on your productivity, and also, well, we will have some fun chatting fluff and fiber!

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  • Linen: Spun By A Witch Hunter!

    Linen: Spun By A Witch Hunter!
    2025/04/14

    In which we learn about a woman called Christian Shaw, who as a child of 11, 'rid' her Scottish County of 7 witches, and then went on to singlehandedly improve the quality of Scottish Linen! There may have been some espionage involved, definitely a curse, and the famous linen 'bleaching fields' in the Netherlands. What a tale!


    References & Further Reading:

    1. Levack, Brian P. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe – A broader look at the social and political climate that led to cases like the Bargarran Witch Trials.

    2. Beveridge, Craig. Scottish Industrial History: A Study of Textiles and Innovation – Examines the development of the Scottish textile industry, including early industrial espionage.

    3. Wikipedia: Christian Shaw – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Shaw

    https://www.paisley.org.uk/famous-people/christian-shaw/

    JOURNAL ARTICLE

    The Genesis of the Linen Thread Trade

    H. C. Lawlor

    Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Third Series, Vol. 6 (1943), pp. 24-34 (11 pages)

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/20566424
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    36 分
  • Tales from the Fiber Side: Spinning with the Fates!

    Tales from the Fiber Side: Spinning with the Fates!
    2025/03/02

    Arlene and Suzy travel back in time to discover the role of the Fates, the three women more powerful than the gods, who spun the fate of all.

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    33 分
  • Wool Smugglers and The Original Captain Hook

    Wool Smugglers and The Original Captain Hook
    2025/01/20

    In this episode we delve into the murky world of wool smuggling! We meet some interesting characters and discover just some of the tales and legends they created. It is amazing to think of wool as such a valuable commodity that its trade was protected and limited, and contraband wool bales clandestinely shipped to other countries!

    (You can also watch the video version of this episode on the Fiberygoodness YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/-gRgl48AqAk )

    If you are interested in following up these stories with some more reading, here are some great links to get you started:

    Rattenbury wrote a complete dairy which became his memoirs (published 1837) can be read here: https://archive.org/details/memoirsasmuggle00rattgoog/page/n2/mode/1up

    Wadhurst History Society — Wadhurst History Society | The History of Smuggling in Sussex and Kent
    wadhursthistorysociety.org

    Mysterious Britain — Brede Place – Mysterious Britain & Ireland mysteriousbritain.co.uk

    Clare Flynn — Smugglers of Sussex | Clare Flynn
    clareflynn.co.uk
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    38 分
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