A Sweater Star is Born // Casual Friday 315

In this week's Casual Friday podcast, I learn some new things about the history of yarn and thread, what sorts of mules you'll find in textiles, I hatch a plan for starting several new projects to harness my distractibility and come up with a way to hide my hair, 1940s-style. Support me by buying me a coffee on Ko-fi! https://www.ko-fi.com/roxannerichardson To jump to a specific point in the video, click on the adjacent time-stamped links Introduction: 0:00 Tidbits: 0:58 Textile historians, mules, and the Industrial Revolution: 11:46 Startup Projects to harness my distraction: 21:48 Hairdo Rescue Vintage project: 40:27 LINKS TO VARIOUS THINGS DISCUSSED IN THE PODCAST Knitting and Crochet Guild (UK) 100 objects https://kcguild.org.uk/news/category/100-objects Oldest yarn ever found 52,000 years old – Neanderthal https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/world/oldest-yarn-neanderthals-scn/index.html scientific article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61839-w BBC documentary on Paisley, Scotland, the Town that Thread Built. It's on BBC website until April 21 (Not available on BritBox, as far as I can tell): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08tl9nr It is on YouTube, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMu71j0ZruE Sally Tuckett on Twitter, textile historian: https://twitter.com/SallyTuckett University of Glasgow yarn (note there are three other colors as well) https://www.universityofglasgowshops.com/products/university-cochno-farm-wool-natural Shetland Wool Week 20