[MR] cotton

[Daria of Atlantia]

There is a story about Queen Elizabeth that make the cotton issue very easy.
The story goes that she was given a gift of a embroidered cotton partlet,
she felt it so fine and so rare that she did not feel "worthy to wear it"

Daria
(cotton garb owner - not so fancy as Elizabeth)
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From: <MaryMizio at aol.com>
To: <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:07 AM
Subject: [MR] cotton


> What someone said in the authenticity thread (I can't remember who since
the
> thread is so long) implied that cotton was not a period fabric.  It
prompted
> me to do a little research.  This is what I found out:  1) cotton fabric
is at
> least 7,000 years old - found by archaelogists in Mexico, 2) In Pakistan
and
> Egypt, cotton was being grown, spun, and woven in 3,000 BC, 3) Arab
merchants
> brought cotton cloth to Europe @ 800 AD, 4) Cotton was introduced to
America in
> the mid 1500's.  So, all of my fellow SCAdians who've been wondering about
> the authenticity of their cotton garb, relax.
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