Draft:Yarn Thwacking
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== History == |
== History == |
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Manufacture of cloth was one of the largest industries in [[Europe]] during the Middle Ages. The production of woollen goods was controlled by wealthy and influential guilds. Yarn spinning was a low paid, yet highly regulated, cottage industry. Spinners were pressured to produce quality goods.{{Cite book |last=Renard |first=George |title=Guilds in the Middle Ages |date=1918 |publisher=G. Bell and Sons |year=1918 |location=London, England |pages=32-33,87}} As such, spinners sought methods to improve their wares.{{Cite journal |last=1 Deploige 2 Stabel |first=1 Jeroen 2 Peter |title=Textile entrepreneurs and textile workers in the medieval city |journal=Golden Times. Wealth and Status in the Middle Ages |pages=11}}Yarn thwacking was thought to be first practiced in Medieval [[Vrhbosna]], as a trade secret for softening handspun [[wool]]. |
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[[File:Woman Winding Yarn - Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery - 1979.0226P.tif|thumb|Woman Winding Yarn]] |
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Yarn thwacking was first introduced in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages|Medieval Bosnia]]{{Cite web |title=Kočić, Petar |url=https://doi.org/10.1553/0x002821dc |access-date=2026-04-17 |website=doi.org}}, by a spinner's [[Guilds in medieval Europe|guild]] searching for a method of softening handspun [[wool]].{{Cite book |last=Ghanalanyan |first=Aram |title=Avandapatum}} Verbal tradition states that it was first developed by a medieval knitter taking out his anger at [[Tvrtko I of Bosnia|King Tvrtko I]] on the freshly dyed yarn. This technique spread from Bosnia all over Europe, and into the [[American colonies]] by the late 1650s. |
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Yarn thwacking was recommended in the Corticelli Yarn Book No. 12, 1913, and the The Diamond Dye Annual Direction Book, 1914-1915. |
Yarn thwacking was recommended in the Corticelli Yarn Book No. 12, 1913, and the The Diamond Dye Annual Direction Book, 1914-1915. |
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