broth

you probably thought today was a normal Monday. nooooope. strong as fuck ice mummy again, sorry.

Update tried to purposely fail by staying home but it didnt work and now im actually motivated to finish this stupid course

National maritime museum greenwich I am once again asking who told you those gloves are cotton and are you sure they can be trusted

Have been reminded of this post and have been doing a teeny tiny bit of reading about cotton and cashmere in mid 1800s Britian and definitely cotton was more prevalent and affordable but cashmere certainly wasn't rare, just expensive. There were possibly also many "cashmere" yarns that were really a blend of fibres. Knowing the true fibre content of the gloves could go a long way towards narrowing down who they belonged to. Of course it could be neither of those things they could be plain sheep's wool I don't know how much Sherard Osborn knew about fibre identification. And it's not like rich people didn't also wear cotton of course they did cotton was everyone's* favourite for many things but! If they're not cotton that could lead in an interesting direction. And that's barely taking into account the fact that they're two left hands and the question of who made them and how. I need to examine other extant glove examples from that time I need to break into the nmm I need to chew through 14 tonnes of sheet metal. Unrelatedly - the shift in political & economic value of domestic vs foreign/imported everyday textile (and everything else) production over time is fascinating. People used to get medals from the king for kidnapping sheep

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