Re: Nettles

From: alexei mcdonald <alexei_mcdonald_at_...>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 16:37:19 +0000

Not only that, but a very serviceable cloth can be made from nettle fibres.   It may even have been the first kind of fabric to be made in Europe ; certainly it goes back a very long way. Nettle fibre nets have been found in ancient Celtic lake villages in Switzerland, and nettle shirts were still being made in Germany until the last century.

Alexei

>From: "Dr Moose" <loosmoos_at_...>
>Reply-To: HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com
>To: HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Nettles
>Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 11:00:43 -0000
>
>Bearing in mind the recent discussions on crops and also on
>parchment/papyrus/paper did you know that you can not only make soup
>out of nettles... you can also make a serviceable paper from the
>fibrous leaves?
>
>Although your large Lankhor Mhy libraries will have access to sheep
>for parchment your average tribal law-speaker can simply harvest
>local nettles (or get his apprentice to do it!), steep them in water
>overnight and form them into rough sheets for his writing. This would
>allow parchment to remain for special uses.
>
>Would it be common for "wild" Lanhkhor Mhy sages to encourage the
>growth of nettles around their huts, for nutritional, scribal and
>defensive purposes? I'm sure ther must be adveturing possibilities
>somewhere...
>
>Me, I pity the apprentice who has to do the harvesting...
>

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