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A comment on Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own safety. Parent comment
reminds me of this fascinating podcast about the history of textiles.
https://www.econtalk.org/virginia-postrel-on-textiles-and-th...
The fastest spinners in the world used to take 13 days 8hrs a day of labor to spin enough thread to make one pair of jeans. A 200 thread count bed sheet would take 59 days. And neither of those include the time turning that thread into fabric.
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reminds me of this fascinating podcast about the history of textiles.
https://www.econtalk.org/virginia-postrel-on-textiles-and-th...
The fastest spinners in the world used to take 13 days 8hrs a day of labor to spin enough thread to make one pair of jeans. A 200 thread count bed sheet would take 59 days. And neither of those include the time turning that thread into fabric.