Re: Fustian and Linen for bowstrings (long)

[Christian Folini]

At 04:27 13.08.99 -0700, joerg wrote:
>I know that some Primitve Archery supplier in the U.S. used to sell
>Irish Shoemakers thread and it was advertised as untreated, unbleached
>thread. But your source in Ireland sounds good.

On of my shoesmakers threads is a thread made of 8 substrings resulting
in a ~1mm thread, very strong and i think it is about the same
thread i have seen on Ingo's bow.
It comes as a huge coil (50m? 100m? 200m? I do not remember)
probably a bit bleached (it _is_ white) and was waxed after
being formed to the larger thread (a true shoemakers thread would 
have the substrings waxed or pitched or whatever) about 15 DM per coil.

If someone wants the address I could browse my papers...

cheers

christian

'Two plus two equals five for sufficiently large values of two.'
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Institute  for  Medieval Studies  at the University of  Fribourg

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