[Moo] Another Textile Question

[csfriedman at adelphia.net]

  That's it.

The Crusades brough back new dyes, new color concepts, new spices, perfumes, and as I understand it, soap.

The unfortunate Pendulum swing from "europe is the seat of enlightenment and all other countries are barbarians" is that the PC crowd now embroiders history to make Christian Europe the seat of all barbarism, only saved by contact with the Arab world.

The truth is somewhere between the two.  As always

Celia

---- "Ii Saburou Katsumori (Joshua B.)" <tatsushu at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On 11/21/05, Julie Bright <jbright at wwlnk.net> wrote:
> > ...which reminds me I wanted to ask someone.
> >
> > I was watching Kingdom of Heaven on DVD tonight with the historical
> > commentary thing running on the bottom (kind of Medieval Pop-Up-Video).  It
> > said that the ability to dye clothing was brought back to Europe from the
> > Crusades.
> >
> > Europeans didn't know how to dye fabric before 1080-something?
> 
> I think we can say 'pshaw' to that one.  Unless Romans didn't actually
> have red wool--just bright red sheep ;)
> 
> My guess is that they meant they brought back many _new_ dyes.
> 
> -Ii
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