RE: advice sought on textile history source(s)

["Schmalz, Susan" <SSchmalz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sarah,
Sorry to respond to your inquiry so late.  This is very unscientific info,
but my parents were Germans living on farms in small villages in Poland
during WWII.  My mother has often talked about seeing her grandmother
weaving linen on a large loom.  Evidently, flax was grown all over Eastern
and Central Europe and the typical farmers wife was engaged in home weaving
activities amongst other domestic pursuits.  Hope this helps,
Susan

Susan Schmalz
Assistant Conservator of Textiles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
sschmalz@xxxxxxxxx


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> From: 	Sarah Lowengard[SMTP:sarahl@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 	Thursday, March 30, 2000 3:13 AM
> To: 	texcons@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 	advice sought on textile history source(s)
> 
> Can anyone recommend a book that discusses textile history in central or
> eastern Europe in the early-modern epoch?  I'm particularly interested in
> the German-speaking regions from the end of the thirty-years war to about
> 1810, and my preoccupations are principally social and economic, rather
> than art-historical.  What scarce mentions I can find seems to assume that
> either what existed in the middle ages continued to exist until the heavy
> industrialization of the 19th century, or to assume that what held for
> France was simply true throughout Europe.  I am anxious to confirm or
> refute these impressions, but would prefer not to have to do the primary
> research myself.
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> Sarah
> 
> Sarah Lowengard
> sarahl@xxxxxxxxx
> Max-Planck-Insitut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
> 30 March 2000                                              Berlin
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