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Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Thanks for everybody's contributions -- and for the "likes"!


message 2: by Pixelina (new)

Pixelina I didn't know that scarlet was a fabric, I always took it to be just a colour.


message 3: by Pixelina (new)

Pixelina Oh also interesting note, the word 'fabric' is the word for 'fabrik' = Factory in swedish. I guess the very first factories in my country were actually cloth mills.


message 4: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Aug 27, 2013 03:21AM) (new)

Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Yes, similar in German -- "Fabrik" = "factory" (from the Latin "fabrica"). Interesting, though, that in these two Germanic languages (Swedish and German) the word would come to refer to the same thing as in the original Latin; while in English (where Latin-sourced words were chiefly reintroduced, after several centuries' worth of Anglo-Saxon rule (and language/communication) as a consequence of the Norman Conquest) "fabric" has primarily come to refer to cloth.

Have you read Ken Follett's World Without End? Scarlet cloth/wool and its manufacture features fairly prominently in the storyline of that book.

Maybe the importance of the wool trade/wool manufacture really is at the heart of why "fabric" = "cloth" in English, whereas it has a broader reference in other languages -- even more predominantly Germanic ones?


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