Books and Resources

Favorite resources:

Fibers:

♥What fiber is this? How to figure out with the burn test — procedures, photos, and a flow chart: https://byhandlondon.com/blogs/by-hand-london/the-burn-test-how-to-identify-the-fibres-in-your-mystery-fabric

♥Great info distinguishing cotton terms throughout history: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/traded-goods-dictionary/1550-1820/cotton-cotton-yarn

Dyes:

♥Indigo factory model from Kew Gardens

https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/kew-empire-indigo-factory-model

Threads:

♥A history of Coats and Clark Thread Company — this one is a little complicated, because they took down the timeline they had posted for their 200th anniversary, so you have to go to the WaybackMachine and get an archived copy. This is how to do that:

Go to https://archive.org, and put “http://www.coatsandclark200years.com/pdf/timeline.pdf” in the search box, clicking the bottom menu button, “Search archived websites”. A calendar will appear. Click on the dot for April 4, 2016, and then the snapshot time of 13:08, and the PDF will download automatically.