Never Underestimate the Textile Industry Again!

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: Find me elsewhere: ❤️ Support me on Patreon: 📸 Instagram: 💌 Newsletter and website: References: 1. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, Kassia St. Clair, 2018 ISBN: 9781631494802 2. Dyed in the Wool 3. Interwoven 4. Social fabric #:~:text=Social Fabric is the web,all together as a society. 5. To hang by a thread by a thread 6. Emily Wilson’s Translation of The Odyssey 7. A Translator’s 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 9. How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life, by Ruth Goodman, 2015 10. History of the Wool Trade, by Ben Johnson 11. The Highland Clearances by Terry Stewart 12. House of Medici 13. The Medici Family by Isabella Meyer 14. The Medici in Florence #:~:text=Artists such as Brunelleschi, Donatello,all thrived under Medici patronage 15. Interfacing 16. Fleeced 17. Tenterhooks #:~:text=“On tenterhooks” means “waiting,the tension of nervous waiting. 18. Sabotage 19. Sabotaging a language myth 20. To spin a tale/yarn/story 21. Subtle #:~:text=Subtle comes ultimately from a,was originally a weaving term 22. Air one’s dirty laundry one’s dirty laundry 23. Madness #:~:text=: behavior or thinking that is,that is pure/sheer madness 24. Pop goes the weasel 25. Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor 26. Chintz 27. Chintz 28. Chintz 101