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What is the history of the towel? All I can find is how the terry cloth towel was first manufactured. But the concept of the towel. What is the history of THAT?
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Re: Anyone know...
Fri, February 6, 2009 - 11:57 AMMy first thought was that it has to pre date the written language, then I revised that to language at all. I imagine the concept goes way back to crawling out of a stream you had to cross and noticing that moss really absorbed the water when you rolled in it.
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 1:18 PMProvided you didn't roll in it early in the morning, or following a soaking rain. Trust me on this; during the sixties, I tried both. It was still fun, though. ;)
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 12:13 PMI would guess it's a matter of simple textile history. When did the first thread get turned into the first cloth that got woven into something which wiped something up? -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 1:19 PMSee - so when did it first become distinguishable from a loin cloth and a blanket? As something different and completely set apart from those two? -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 2:03 PMI would think that coincided with clothing. -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 2:14 PMI mean, this IS the Don't Panic tribe. We aren't supposed to go anywhere without a towel. We should know the history of the towel. -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 2:16 PMI might be able to hook you up with the textile engineering folks at GA Tech. -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 3:27 PMConsidering ancient weaving styles, a one yard towel, standard loom width can take between 1 and 3 miles of thread, depending on the size of the thread. This is based on measurements given me for an entirely different question in an entirely different situation. And based on thread possibly made with a drop spindle. -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 5:00 PMWouldn't that depend on the density of the warp and weft? And at warp speed, I should think the length of thread would approach infinity ...... or maybe decresase to zero ........ I never did figure out that part of mathematics. Fortunately, as an engineer, I try to avoid working at the fringes. :) -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 5:11 PMIs it better to have a towel without fringes then, do you think? Or would the possibility of fringes be better to have when carrying around the towel of infinite thread length? -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 7:24 PMFringe or no fringe? It's up to the individual hitchhiker. -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 7:27 PMWhat, do you think, Deep Thought would say about it all? -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 7:54 PMThat's cheating. "Ice cream" is a valid answer to any given question.
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Re: Anyone know...
Fri, February 6, 2009 - 9:26 PM<<<<See - so when did it first become distinguishable from a loin cloth and a blanket? As something different and completely set apart from those two?>>>>
The first time Thag wiped his dirty hands on his wife's frilliest loin cloth?
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