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11 Aug 05 - 09:53 PM (#1540780) Subject: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: GUEST Is muslin rubbish? They don't make that cloth any more do they. |
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11 Aug 05 - 09:54 PM (#1540784) Subject: BS: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: Cluin No, but it IS B.S. |
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11 Aug 05 - 09:55 PM (#1540785) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: GUEST,bobbinboy The question is dear Guest, is muslin worth the bother of creating a thread? |
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11 Aug 05 - 10:00 PM (#1540793) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: GUEST Ok, so it belongs in BS, but then so does Is Haggis Necessary or whatever it was. |
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11 Aug 05 - 10:01 PM (#1540795) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: Cluin No it doesn't. This is different. |
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11 Aug 05 - 10:03 PM (#1540798) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: Q (Frank Staplin) The coarse cotton fabric called muslin is stil produced, and sometimes used by decorators. I find the idiotic question, 'Is ---- rubbish?', obnoxious. It keeps appearing in Mudcat with regard to both people and objects. This is definitely a below the line thread. |
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11 Aug 05 - 10:05 PM (#1540802) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: GUEST Don't you mean below the hem? |
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12 Aug 05 - 12:35 AM (#1540937) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: Liz the Squeak Muslin isn't that coarse - it's great for straining fruit out of homemade wine and using as a tea strainer if absolutely necessary..... It also makes lovely underclothes. LTS |
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12 Aug 05 - 12:37 AM (#1540939) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: Liz the Squeak The coarse stuff you're thinking of is probably cheesecloth. That was much rougher and was actually used in making cheese.... LTS |
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12 Aug 05 - 01:47 AM (#1540973) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Liz- I took the definition out of a dictionary! Then I looked in Webster's Collegiate. It says: "A plain-woven sheer to coarse cotton fabric." So I look further and find that it is defined differently by the Oxford E. D. "The general name for the most delicately woven cotton fabrics, inc....(listing everything from dresses to curtains (drapes) etc.)". Another fault line between the 'Old Country' and the 'New World'? Almost as bad as biscuit and cookie! Becoming pedantic (after perusing more of the OED), the real (original) muslin was a linen cloth from the Middle East but this definition apparently got lost through the years. (I use cheesecloth, but for light shade in the greenhouse.) |
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12 Aug 05 - 08:13 PM (#1541400) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Of course muslin's not rubbish..... As long as it's a politician you are muslin. Don T. |
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13 Aug 05 - 11:13 AM (#1541787) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: Bunnahabhain And surprisingly, the name is not a corruption of Muslim. it would appear to originate as a fine cotton fabric, first made in Mosul, in the former Yugoslavia Oxford dictionary of oxford etymology. And it's very useful to have in the kitchen. (Muslein, or muslin, not the dictionary) |
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13 Aug 05 - 12:17 PM (#1541821) Subject: RE: Is Muslin Rubbish? From: John MacKenzie It used to be good for butter, and where would Merchant Ivory films have been without it? Giok |