12-04-2007, 08:39 PM
It is frustrating, but it is definately not unreasonable to believe that. If you spent 200 hours of work spinning, dyeing, and sewing I doubt you would throw something away just when it got a little frayed. We think a little more disposably in today's society. It might not be a good tunic anymore, but would make a great pair of socks, wickelbander / leg wraps, subarmalis, etc. Hey even when it was too worn for these it could be used for rags or field toilet paper (yes I knew they used a sponge, but did they always). There are a lot of uses that a used garment could be turned into once it outlived its use.
Derek D. Estabrook
