• Elise@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    Reminds me that people used to wear wool cloaks. They’re so warm you can sleep in them in cold climates and rain rolls off it.

    I’ve looked around a bit and it runs in the hundreds of euros.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve read that in the southeastern states, Spanish moss was used like wool, also for thread and upholstery. But it doesn’t get nearly as cold down there 😆

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        3 months ago

        I wish I could find a pic

        But I did just read that it can be used to make swamp coolers! I always do that with a towel and a bucket.

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        3 months ago

        You put it best there, I live in a part of the United States that gets over 100 degrees during the summer time, which would challenge a cloak idea sadly