Catnip is wonderful in tea form, I love to drink at night to relax me from a hectic day. Catnip mixed with a bit of basil or dandelion leaf makes a great...
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Carowyn Silveroak
carowynsilve...
Dec 1, 2009 11:07 pm
Greetings! My favorite drink in the winter when the sniffles come is Syrup of Lemons, which a shire friend gave to me one nasty cold shire demo when I was...
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Ysabeau
austin_baebe
Dec 2, 2009 5:59 pm
Greetings all! Please forgive the SPAM but I wanted to make sure this gets to as many people as possible. A personal trailer that contained items belonging to...
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Ysabeau
austin_baebe
Dec 2, 2009 6:53 pm
Pictures of some of the missing items: *Kingdom* Kingdom Pavilion http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3412/3190797337_1426e2f6ce_o.jpg ...
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Lori Hannis
charmed3x3
Dec 11, 2009 2:25 pm
Greetings unto the Outlands, and all others who will come by these letters. As many of you know Fontaine loves to cook, and more of us love to eat! And as...
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sillysolveig
Jan 12, 2010 9:38 pm
The submission deadline for classes at Gulf Wars to appear in the on-site booklet is January 15th, 2010! Teachers, artisans, performers, and guilds need to...
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Richard
storm85213
Jan 28, 2010 8:19 pm
Good afternoon, Happy New Year and almost Happy February. I have come across mention of teasel in my research. It was from near the mouth of the Rhine River in...
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Avaline
avaline_2003
Jan 28, 2010 8:33 pm
Weren't teasel heads used to raise the nap of woven cloth? Teasel has a head like a burr, only larger, if I remember correctly. I'd have to check my...
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Dianna Haught
avecyn
Jan 28, 2010 8:35 pm
Teasel heads were used to card wool. But I don't know any other use for them. Avacyn...
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Alyson
kemperoctavia
Jan 28, 2010 11:49 pm
I believe that they were also used to brush hair. ~Kemper O'Breoniann Life is meant to be an adventure; change is a gift that we have to learn to use aright. A...
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Vivienne Kestrel
viviennekestrel
Jan 29, 2010 12:01 am
Good Morrow, We have lots of Teasel in the gully near our home and it's a very nasty plant. I wanted to use it for Halloween decorations but the needles are...
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Amy Provost
sparrowhawk1970
Jan 29, 2010 11:03 am
Teasel was most notably used to felt wool. The rain or dew was collected from the leaf joints to use as an eye wash, or the roots were used in tea as a...
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 29, 2010 11:36 pm
Thanks for the quick reply. The archaeologist''s report just hinted at textile work. Jack To: SCA-Herbalist@yahoogroups.com From: avaline_2003@... Date:...
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 29, 2010 11:38 pm
Thanks again for helping me. I went ahead and looked it up anyway, mostly for photos of it. It looks like a big angry thistle! Apparently it was well used to...
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 29, 2010 11:40 pm
Yuck. That would hurt. Maybe it was better on taking out braids than the local combs. I wonder if the ancients used it to curry out and brush their horses....
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 29, 2010 11:42 pm
Thank you. They sound like a typical desert plant.......all thorns. lol Good luck but I'd be tempted to burn them. Jack To: SCA-Herbalist@yahoogroups.com From:...
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 29, 2010 11:47 pm
Thank you. So it does have medicinal value. I suspected as much. I have also been wondering if the large thorns were used as natural needles. They are...
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Avaline
avaline_2003
Jan 30, 2010 12:07 am
I could see where a teasel might be useful for brushing out a horse's winter coat in the spring - like a shedding blade. Would fit in the palm of the hand...
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 30, 2010 12:16 am
Hey, are you an equestrian? Just asking. Maybe it could be used. The flower pod is egg-shaped, but covered with stickers like a giant thistle. I would think...
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Rickard, Patty
pattyrickard
Jan 30, 2010 12:17 am
The teasel here in Ohio have prickly stems but the seed head is surprisinly soft. Patty ________________________________ From: SCA-Herbalist@yahoogroups.com...
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 30, 2010 12:25 am
Does that mean that it would have to be dried to use? Hmmmm. Jack ... _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email...
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Avaline
avaline_2003
Jan 30, 2010 12:55 am
Nope, not an equestrian now, but used to be. Sold the critters, moved to the city, now can only daydream... BUT: If I had had teasels around, I would have...
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Avaline
avaline_2003
Jan 30, 2010 12:57 am
Well, when you consider that the common thistle head is prickly even when green, I would suspect that the teasel might be similar. It is the shape of the...
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Lila Richards
sinechnz
Jan 30, 2010 1:49 am
... My favourite version of that is an African people I read of who hold wounds closed by allowing a particular insect (an ant, I think) to bite the edges ...
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 30, 2010 8:27 pm
Oh, sorry about the horses. A friend of mine is also a horsewoman with no horses. She misses riding, too. However a friend of mine lives in a city and is...
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 30, 2010 8:31 pm
oh, like palm fronds. lol Jack To: SCA-Herbalist@yahoogroups.com From: avaline_2003@... Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:57:16 -0800 Subject: RE:...
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 30, 2010 8:37 pm
I have heard of that, too. It was passed around the Helenistic doctors as a wound closure. They have to be pretty bid ants so I am not sure how many were used...
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Avaline
avaline_2003
Jan 30, 2010 9:11 pm
I would most likely have used gloves - although one respondent mentioned that teasle heads are curiously soft. I'd have just grabbed one up and curried the...
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Lila Richards
sinechnz
Jan 30, 2010 11:55 pm
... I don't think it actually has anything to do with the ancient druids - it's in modern Gaelic, at any rate. I found it in a book by Peter Beresford, who, it...
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jack hollandbeck
storm85213
Jan 31, 2010 4:33 pm
hehehe This is fun. I have The Druids by Peter Beresford Ellis. I don't know how new age he is, but some of his ideas strike pretty close to what we do know...
