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	Books and other Sources of Natural Fibres Information

	Books Wool Fibre size Sheep History Sheep Breeds Alpaca Silk Cotton Linen and flax Nettle and Hemp Bamboo Timeline Glossary

	Books Hisao Aruga (1994) “Principles of Sericulture”. CRC Press E. J. W. Barber (1991). Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean. Princeton University Press Elizabeth Wayland Barber (1994). “Women's Work: The First 20, 000 Years - Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times”. WW Norton & Company, New York Rachel Brown (1979) “Weaving, Spinning and Dyeing Book”. Routledge Rita Buchanan (2003). “A Weaver's Garden: Growing Plants for Natural Dyes and Fibers”. Dover Publications Andre Charrier (2001). “Tropical Plant Breeding”. Science Publishers Grahame Clark (1977). World Prehistory in new perspective. Cambridge University Press

	Other sources of natural fibres information Wool Eileen Power (1941) “The Wool Trade in English Medieval History” re-published in the McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought, http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/power/WoolTrade.pdf Munro, John H.A., "Industrial Change in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries: the Arrival of Spanish Merino Wools and the Expansion of the ‘Nouvelles Draperies’ http://repec.economics.utoronto.ca/files/UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-02-03.pdf Fibre size Melanie Barkley of Penn State University on “Wool Production Basics” http://bedford.extension.psu.edu/agriculture/lessons/Wool%20Prod%20Basics.html John Carlson of Western Illinois Uni on sheep breeds - “112 Breed Identification – Sheep” http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfjpc/sheep.htm Rosemary Brock of Textilelinks on “Wool Breeds” http://www.textilelinks.com/author/rb/971111.html SGS Wool Testing Services – Animal fibres other than wool – Possum http://www.wooltesting.sgs.com/wool_testing_home_nz_v2/services_wooltesting_nz/possum_v2.htm UN FAO – The yak. Second edition – Fibre production and hides http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/AD347E/ad347e0f.htm Top of page History of Sheep M L Ryder (1981). “Medieval sheep and their wool types”, in D W Crossley (ed), Medieval Industry – this is published on the Archaeology Data Service site as 3 separate but consecutive sections; http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/cbaresrep/pdf/040/04002001.pdf http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/cbaresrep/pdf/040/04002002.pdf http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/cbaresrep/pdf/040/04002003.pdf and ML Ryder (1984). “Medieval Sheep and Wool Types”, The Agricultural History Review pp. 15-28, is published on the British Agricultural History Society’s site at http://www.bahs.org.uk/32n1a2.pdf Top of page Breeds of sheep Oklahoma State University (OSU) Breeds of Livestock Project: The Breeds of Livestock Project lists the livestock breeds worldwide and illustrates many of them in this alphabetic section on sheep breeds - http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/index.htm see the Sheep and Wool links page for more info. Top of page Other fibre animals - Alpacas, Rabbits, Goats etc Mary-Russell Roberson of the Smithsonian Institute’s extensive article on the origin of South American camelids – “Discovering South America's Camels” in the January-February 2008 issue of the Smithsonian Institute (SI) magazine Zoogoer, http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2008/1/Camelids.cfm Mike Bruford “Alpaca DNA: From Wool to Genes (And Back Again!)” http://www.alpacaworldmagazine.com/PDFs/summer04_07.pdf Heather Pringle “Secrets of the Alpaca Mummies - did the ancient Inca make the finest woolen cloth the world has ever known?” http://www.suri.com.au/library/secrets%20of%20the%20alpaca%20mummies.html http://www.bartonalpacas.co.uk/fibre.php - record fibre sizes ranging from 21-41 microns with their individual alpacas of different ages Wikipedia on Angora rabbit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angora_rabbit European Fine Fibre Network (EFFN) Project covers fibres from Angora goats (mohair), Angora rabbits, Cashmere goats and fine wool sheep http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/europeanfibre/ Understanding cashmere in Fashion Technology Magazine, Sept 2007 http://www.hk.sgs.com/understanding_cashmere_en.pdf UN FAO – The Yak. Second edition http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/AD347E/ad347e00.HTM see the Sheep and Wool links page for more info. Top of page Silk James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood (1835) “The Natural History of Insects” J. & J. Harper, Printers. http://books.google.com/books?id=Rtc4AAAAMAAJ&pg Wormspit’s site on silkworms, silk moths and silk - types of silkworms and how to breed them http://www.wormspit.com/index.htm Llyn Payne “Mawata: Handspinning Silk Caps & Hankies” – preparing Mawata silk caps and hankies for hand spinning http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art53354.asp Cotton Herodotus (c 440 BC), The Histories – Book 3. CVI – is available on the Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Hdt.+1.1.0 Sir John Mandeville (1371) “The Travels of Sir John Mandeville” is available on Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/tosjm10h.htm UNCTAD Infocomm article on Cotton http://r0.unctad.org/infocomm/anglais/cotton/characteristics.htm Angela Box – “Cotton: The fabric of our lives”. Southern Illinois University Ethnobotanical leaflets, http://www.siu.edu/~ebl/leaflets/cotton.htm Answers.com Veterinary Dictionary: Gossypium http://www.answers.com/topic/gossypium-3 Top of page Linen and flax The Swiss Lake dwellers inhabited Switzerland from 4300 to 800 BCE http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/Rediscovering_the_legend_of_the_lake_dwellers.html Ancient Egypt: Dynasties - the Old Kingdom was c.2686-2181 BCE & the Early Dynastic Period c.3100-2686 BCE http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/dynasties.htm Ancient Egypt: Flax - harvest, linen production http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/flax.htm Egyptology online: fashion and style: dress and costume http://www.egyptologyonline.com/dress.htm “Life in Flanders in the 18th and 19th Centuries” is a Rootsweb site presenting a detailed social and economic background to rural life in Flanders in the 1700s and 1800s, with 4-5 pages closely related to flax and linen production:- Life in Flanders in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Flax and Linen http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~belghist/Flanders/Pages/flaxLinen.htm Life in Flanders in the 18th and 19th Centuries - A family working with flax into the 20th century http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~belghist/Flanders/Pages/flaxLinen3.htm American Frontier: YouTube video: Flax Processing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzTMH5NdwWY American Frontier: YouTube video: Flax Spinning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qw6pVgw9UU Top of page Nettle and Hemp Wikipedia on hemp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp Wikipedia on cannabis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis Georgina N Riall on Anglo-Saxon Textiles at http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/resources/articles/as_textiles.htm Bamboo Article on the organic credentials of bamboo fibre – “Bamboo: Facts behind the Fiber” http://organicclothing.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/09/bamboo-facts-be.html Historical Timeline BBC History Timeline http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml Glossary Ingeo™ Fibers http://www.natureworksllc.com/product-and-applications/ingeo-fibers.aspx Qiviut from the downy soft under-wool of the Arctic Musk Ox http://www.qiviut.com/store/index.cfm?target=Farms%20/%20Animals Ramie: Old Fiber - New Image http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5501.html

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