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61: A Textile Historian's Survival Guide

61: A Textile Historian's Survival Guide

Released Sunday, 10th December 2023
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61: A Textile Historian's Survival Guide

61: A Textile Historian's Survival Guide

61: A Textile Historian's Survival Guide

61: A Textile Historian's Survival Guide

Sunday, 10th December 2023
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How do you survive in a world that is no longer optimized for makingyour own clothing when you suddenly find that modern conveniences nolonger accommodate you? As a textile historian, Morgan has beenruminating for years about women’s contributions to the domesticeconomy, the massive time investment of producing clothing for afamily, and the comparative properties of different textilefibers. These research interests were informed by a lifetime of sewingand other fiber crafts. None of this experience, however, properlyprepared her to face the reality of needing to rely on her own handsto provide large portions of her own wardrobe.

Guest co-host Juliana Sims sits down with Morgan to talk about how,in the wake of a recently developed allergy to synthetic fabrics, shenow finds herself putting that knowledge of historical textileproduction to use to produce clothing that she can wear.

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The quote that Morgan somewhat misremembered about a woman preparingwool before the winter:

"A thrifty countrywoman had a small croft, she and her sturdy spouse. He tilled his own land, whether the work called for the plough, or the curved sickle, or the hoe. She would now sweep the cottage, supported on props; now she would set the eggs to be hatched under the plumage of the brooding hen; or she gathered green mallows or white mushrooms, or warmed the low hearth with welcome fire. And yet she diligently employed her hands at the loom, and armed herself against the threats of winter." -- Ovid, Fasti 4.687-714

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