-----Original Message----- From: Michael Robison [mailto:
miker_zspider@yahoo.com] The most amusing thing [Nick
Tosches] mentioned is that the quality of paper went up when
people shifted from wearing woolen underwear to linen
underwear. The reason is that one of main ingredients of
paper is discarded underwear, and linen makes higher quality
paper than wool. Think it's true?
Dunno if wool ever made good parchment (sheepskin?), but
cotton certainly is a component of finer milled product of
yore. TM
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