On Dec 14, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Onaree Berard wrote:
On 12/11/06, Gail & Scott Finke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I remember the television program "Connections" from my youth
saying that
after the Black Plague paper production soared because of the huge
quantities of linen available from dead people. I don't know if
that's
really true.
Gail Finke
Actually it was the survivors spending their inheritace and when they
(the linen) wore out it was perfect for the printing industry thus the
bone man became the rag and bone man or something to that effect.
On the other side of the equation, mummy wrappings were (for a time)
a popular source of cloth for rag paper. At one point, a food-borne
illness outbreak was tracked to butchers using unbleached rag-paper
from mummy wrappings to wrap meat.
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