Maybe shoddy and/or mungo? "Benjamin Law developed a process of turning recycled old rags mixed with some virgin wool into shoddy around 1813. He was unable at the time to figure out a way of incorporating tailors' clippings into the process. This was figured out by his nephews several years later and was called "mungo".
By 1855, 35,000,000 pounds of rag were being sorted and processed into yarn to make "mungo" and "shoddy". The making of shoddy and mungo is a similar process to the making of woolen and worsted, once the rags had been ground up and processed into yarn." From: http://www.maggieblanck.com/Land/Shoddy.html Dede O'Hair _________________________ West Village Studio www.workroombuttons.com --- On Tue, 4/19/11, Stacey Dunleavy <anastas...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Stacey Dunleavy <anastas...@gmail.com> Subject: [h-cost] Cabbage question To: h-cost...@indra.com Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 1:39 PM Of course, what was done with the cabbage? I can't see good wools being used for dustrags, yet there's no evidence of American-style patchwork quilting until the 18th Century. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
