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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. 🙂

The cowl I am wearing:

References:

1. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, Kassia St. Clair, 2018 ISBN: 9781631494802 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43862307
2. Dyed in the Wool https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dyed-in-the-wool
3. Interwoven https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interwoven
4. Social fabric https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/integrating-cycle-of-prochaska-and-diclemente-with-ethically-responsible-behavior-theory-for-social-change-management/99859#:~:text=Social%20Fabric%20is%20the%20web,all%20together%20as%20a%20society.
5. To hang by a thread https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hang%20by%20a%20thread
6. Emily Wilson’s Translation of The Odyssey https://www.emilyrcwilson.com/the-odyssey
7. A Translator’s Reckoning With The Women of The Odyssey https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-translators-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 https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh1dss5
9. How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life, by Ruth Goodman, 2015 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30231766
10. History of the Wool Trade, by Ben Johnson https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Wool-Trade/
11. The Highland Clearances by Terry Stewart https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Highland-Clearances/
12. House of Medici https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Medici
13. The Medici Family by Isabella Meyer https://artincontext.org/medici-family/
14. The Medici in Florence https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/medici-in-florence-political-dynasty-patrons-of-arts#:~:text=Artists%20such%20as%20Brunelleschi%2C%20Donatello,all%20thrived%20under%20Medici%20patronage
15. Interfacing https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interfacing
16. Fleeced https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fleeced
17. Tenterhooks https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/on-tenterhooks-origin-meaning-phrase#:~:text=%E2%80%9COn%20tenterhooks%E2%80%9D%20means%20%E2%80%9Cwaiting,the%20tension%20of%20nervous%20waiting.
18. Sabotage https://www.etymonline.com/word/sabotage
19. Sabotaging a language myth https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/09/sabotage.html
20. To spin a tale/yarn/story https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/spin-a-tale-story-yarn
21. Subtle https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subtle#:~:text=Subtle%20comes%20ultimately%20from%20a,was%20originally%20a%20weaving%20term
22. Air one’s dirty laundry https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20one%27s%20dirty%20laundry
23. Madness https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madness#:~:text=%3A%20behavior%20or%20thinking%20that%20is,that%20is%20pure%2Fsheer%20madness
24. Pop goes the weasel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Goes_the_Weasel
25. Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/henry-mayhews-london-labour-and-the-london-poor
26. Chintz https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Chinz
27. Chintz https://www.definitions.net/definition/CHINZ
28. Chintz 101 https://www.vogue.com/article/chintz-prints-to-know