Re: Fustian and Linen for bowstrings (long)

[Jörg Bellinghausen]

Hi Christian!

> 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...
Could you bring some of this thread and the address to HKB? If I'm not
there myself, you can hand it over to Tatjana.

Best,
Jörg
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