stuff warehouseman

[charlotteCH]

From the last couple of posts,  flax seems to have been grown at some distance from Bradford & WRY.  It presumably was woven here as its weaving required  the same  machinery as was installed in the Bradford mills.
Does that sound plausible?

charlotte

[skimble]

Ok, after some more research, I have now found out that for the textile industry in the West Riding, the flax was grown in Ireland, shipped over to England and kept in warehouses in Bradford for weaving here.

It's all been fascinating finding all this out, particularly the stuffed gownsmen becoming silks. 

[charlotteCH]

Presumably, for the junior barristers, the stuffed gownsmen, to become silks they did not stuff up their briefs.

charlotte

[Viktoria]

This is very interesting because I now know what my neighbour`s child has been doing all day at school when I politely ask" What have you been doing today"?-the answer is usually-"stuff".Viktoria

[charlotteCH]

Viktoria, If someone was a "stuff" merchant today and had a dollar every time the word was used as you recount, it would be a very lucrative business

charlotte