[LMB] OT: Feet in the rivers of time: was Recommendation

[Marilyn Traber]

Rachel Ganz wrote:
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What would you like to know? My roomie is a farrier, and a blacksmith 
and teaches historical smithing [and does a lot of research on it, and 
is decent enough at being a farrier that Paul Buell asked her to proof 
his research tome on Mongolian Veterenary/Farrier practice...you want to 
talk about an obscure field...]

My field is just as obscure - ShuNuShi steppes nomad female prctices [i 
can take a sheep, and raw materials as diverse as clay, wood, fat, wood 
ash and plants and produce clothing and dinner=)] I think by the time I 
took the research as far as I could, I had something like 4 or 5 gig of 
emails another 10 gig of pictures, and 3-4000 hours of practical 
experience actually doing the stuff to clothe me and teach myself how to 
drop spin, weave, purify clay, make herb dyes, make lye soap from fat 
and wood ashes, and maintain healthy sheep =) I can design a ger [yurt] 
put one up, make felt solo or in a group, make felt 'tapestries'.

Of course the real world applications are nil ... but I always figured 
it would come in handy if civilization fell ... I also know how to brew 
and distill alcohol=)