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From: "Bill Cocker" <>
Subject: Re: Moleskins - was Re: REEVE
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 19:52:45 -0700
References: <B8F6B358.30FE%smountford@socal.rr.com> <001d01c1f20a$cc7e2b60$394b893e@default>


Hi Betty:

Here in the colonies, flint lock pistols and long guns are still in use, at
black powder get togethers. Flint knappers are still around too. :-)

Bill Cocker, Courtenay, BC, Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty Ames" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Moleskins - was Re: REEVE


> Hi Sharon, yes nap for the rough/smooth of cloth, but flint Knappers were
> around when flint lock pistols were in use.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sharon Mountford" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: 02 May 2002 17:11
> Subject: Re: Moleskins - was Re: REEVE
>
>
> > To the Hermit,
> >
> > I never thought I would be able to contribute anything to your store of
> > knowledge but, as a seamstress, I can assure you that the word is nap.
> >
> > Sharon Mountford
> >
> > on 5/2/02 8:15 AM, Hermit at wrote:
> >
> > > Moleskin was a higly prized material as the silky black
> > > fur has no nap (or should that be knap or napp?), so it
> > > lays flat and smooth whichever way it is stroked. You
> > > cant "rub-a-mole-up-the-wrong-way". This allows the
> > > mole to run as fast backwards as forwards along its
> > > tight little under-lawn tunnels.
> > >
> > > A moleskin waist-coat would be a prized possession.
> > >
> > > Also, landowners objected to the molehills disturbing
> > > their acres of park-land greensward, so there was plenty
> > > of work catching the little warmints!
> > >
> > > Before modern type pesticides were used in farming,
> > > there would have been a very much larger population of
> > > such small animals as moles, voles and shrews, due to
> > > the vastly greater quantity and variety of their prey species,
> > > such as worms, grubs,and other insects.
> > >
> > > Rob, the Mundesley Hermit. Norfolk, UK.
> > > Email:
> > > Website: http://www.oldnorfolk.net
> > > I use Archive CD Books to help with my research
> > > http://www.archivecdbooks.org/
> > >
> >
> >
>


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