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Tales From the Fiber Side: Epic Fiber stories from history and mythAuthor: Suzy Brown
Arlene Thayer and Suzy Brown bring you a monthly episode of fiber stories! In each episode we dive down a story filled fibery rabbithole to bring you tales from the the past about fiber heroes, villains, mythical characters, and events that helped shape the fiber world as we know it. We obsessively bring up the fibery past to inspire you with lore and legends, real and mythical, that bring to life the inner lives of spinners, weavers, tapestry makers, and yarn making. This is the other side of fiber, a world in which pirates and privateers smuggle wool across the English channel, where womanly wartime spies knit secrets into garments and send vital information to their allies in their knitwear, where mythical beings monitor your spinning efforts throughout the year and bring judgement on your productivity, and also, well, we will have some fun chatting fluff and fiber! Language: en-us Genres: Crafts, Hobbies, Leisure Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Linen: Spun By A Witch Hunter!
Episode 11
Sunday, 13 April, 2025
In which we learn about a woman called Christian Shaw, who as a child of 11, 'rid' her Scottish County of 7 witches, and then went on to singlehandedly improve the quality of Scottish Linen! There may have been some espionage involved, definitely a curse, and the famous linen 'bleaching fields' in the Netherlands. What a tale!References & Further Reading:1. Levack, Brian P. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe – A broader look at the social and political climate that led to cases like the Bargarran Witch Trials.2. Beveridge, Craig. Scottish Industrial History: A Study of Textiles and Innovation – Examines the development of the Scottish textile industry, including early industrial espionage.3. Wikipedia: Christian Shaw – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Shawhttps://www.paisley.org.uk/famous-people/christian-shaw/ JOURNAL ARTICLEThe Genesis of the Linen Thread TradeH. C. LawlorUlster Journal of Archaeology, Third Series, Vol. 6 (1943), pp. 24-34 (11 pages)https://www.jstor.org/stable/20566424
