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  1. fascinating story about weaving, labour & economic power in Viking times scientificamerican.com/article/viking-textiles-show-women-had-tremendous-power/
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      interesting parallels with the division of labour among early homesteaders described in More Work For Mother
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        I don't think the dates quite match up, but headspinning thinking about how the colonisation of the Americas caused millions to die, the resulting reforestation leading to a drop of CO2, leading to a global drop in temperatures, leading to... more weft threads in Icelandic cloth.
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          details on that: @v21/1442546387686551567