Those laws might also have somthing to do with paper production. Seem to remember a law, somewhere, probably england or denmark, where people were forbidden to be buried in linen and cotton. Wool cannot be used for paper and it would be a waste to put linen in with wool when the time came to reuse the fibers. As you get closer to the industrial revolution, the more the need for sources for paper increase, which is only made good by the invention of the woodpulp paper (I do bookbinding as a hobby too), which is by many still counted as inferior to ragpaper Tania (Denmark)
E House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I couldn't quote you chapter and verse at the moment, but I've run across quite a few regulations/laws about mixing fibers & fiber content. From what I can remember, they all boiled down to either quality control, or truth in advertising, and a lot of them were pushed by whichever guild applied. The only source I can think of for examples at the moment is Mizzoui's cotton book, which I don't have, or possibly textiler hausrat, which ditto. -E House _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume --------------------------------- Have a burning question? Go to Yahoo! Answers and get answers from real people who know. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
