I am currently renovating an unheated, mid Atlantic zone house. I take old long socks with holes in heels, cut off the foot and use them as arm and leg warmers. Don’t care if I get paint, or caulk, etc. on them. When messed up enough I use them for cleaning rags, lots of really dirty floors and other spots in that 100 year old house.
Last night i was watching Antiques Roadshow. A woman had lovely filagree gold ring. One side lifted up on a hinge and there was a fine braid of human hair. The inside was engraved with the name and date of death of a famous woman author. I think it was one of the Bronte sisters, so the appraiser was pretty sure it was the deceased author’s hair and kept by one of her sisters. Sometimes when I am crocheting a hat I realize one of my long gray hairs has been crocheted into the hat, but I don’t think I will start saving hair for that purpose. ;-)
The Bronte Sisters were known to be a very productive group of writers. I think there were three or four of them.
If they had not been living in that isolated area of the English countryside, it’s likely there would not have been the drive to write and experiment with forms of prose as they did.
Sort of a Greenhouse effect; flowers blooming in a small terrarium made of bevelled glass and tempered steel.