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To: SunkenCiv

Nettles = stinging & itching to me.


3 posted on 10/06/2012 7:51:22 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam; SunkenCiv
Nettles = stinging & itching to me.

And then to have your bones wrapped in them for eternity.

4 posted on 10/06/2012 8:02:16 AM PDT by bigheadfred (wowza)
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To: blam

I suspect that the cloth was actually made from the tufts on the plant after it has flowered, rather than the parts of the plant that have the itch-producing components.


10 posted on 10/07/2012 7:42:36 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: blam

Oops! My supposition was wrong:

http://www.nettlesoup.info/nettlecloth.htm


11 posted on 10/07/2012 7:45:54 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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