I had entirely too much fun scripting this one. I hope you have fun watching it too! Wordplays, idioms and etymology are just endlessly fascinating! Especially when it is related to textiles and textile history.
Thank you again to @JillianEve for sending me some footage of her glorious, functional spinning weasel!
I sincerely hope I managed to add enough definitions and things that everyone can follow along. Especially my fellow multi-lingual friends. :)
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References:
1. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, Kassia St. Clair, 2018 ISBN: 9781631494802
2. Dyed in the Wool
3. Interwoven
4. Social fabric #:~:text=Social Fabric is the web,all together as a society.
5. To hang by a thread by a thread
6. Emily Wilson’s Translation of The Odyssey
7. A Translator’s Reckoning With The Women of The Odyssey
8. The Wealth of England: The Medieval Wool Trade and Its Political Importance 1100–1600, by Susan Rose, 2018
9. How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life, by Ruth Goodman, 2015
10. History of the Wool Trade, by Ben Johnson
11. The Highland Clearances by Terry Stewart
12. House of Medici
13. The Medici Family by Isabella Meyer
14. The Medici in Florence #:~:text=Artists such as Brunelleschi, Donatello,all thrived under Medici patronage
15. Interfacing
16. Fleeced
17. Tenterhooks #:~:text=“On tenterhooks” means “waiting,the tension of nervous waiting.
18. Sabotage
19. Sabotaging a language myth
20. To spin a tale/yarn/story
21. Subtle #:~:text=Subtle comes ultimately from a,was originally a weaving term
22. Air one’s dirty laundry one’s dirty laundry
23. Madness #:~:text=: behavior or thinking that is,that is pure/sheer madness
24. Pop goes the weasel
25. Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor
26. Chintz
27. Chintz
28. Chintz 101
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