Sometimes when reading the scholarship on a historical production process, answering simple questions can be so maddeningly difficult. In this case: was wool sorted, then sold? Or sold, and then sorted? (Answer: both, but mostly the former, as far as I can tell)
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @BretDevereaux
To what extent does your research include current wool-workers? Of course things aren't all the same (techniques, tools, etc), but as a modern handspinner I only buy skirted fleeces, because fleece is sold by the pound and I don't want to pay for sheep poo.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @Avedaggio ja @BretDevereaux
Can we responsibly assume the same for pre-modern wool workers, in the absence of contradictory information? Very curious about your methodology. Thanks!pic.twitter.com/YFQjzRyvO1
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @Avedaggio
So, in the event, I was actually able to find a brief discussion in one book about the terms for bulk wool sale in the 1300s which had expectations for the dressing of the wool prior to sale, which conformed with advice ancient agronomists give in terms of wool preparation.
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For my actual scholarly research, what I really want and can never find very much of are rigorous time-labor studies of the entire wool-working process. There is the occasional rule-of-thumb time-to-task quoting (and one time-labor effort with linen), but less than I'd like.
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