Cob: Re: horse hair

[Bill&Julie]

Hidare,,,,  I think we will find that HAIR is used in the plaster,,,  not
the COB itself.....  bill



----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Calvert" <bradcalv at netspace.net.au>
To: <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:02 PM
Subject: Cob: horse hair


> >So one day they came to a reciept for horse hair.
>
> Does anyone know how enough horse hair to mix with mud for an entire house
> was harvested?  Was straw also mixed into the mud?
>
> Was it mane hair and tail hair?  Or just tail hair?
>
> How many horse tails would be needed per cubic foot of cob?
>
> How fast does horse tail hair grow back?
>
> Maybe there is an archaeological project here, DNA analysis of horse hair
to
> see if it came from a hundred horses or just a few...
>
> Does anyone know if horse hair is still commercially available for
furniture
> manufacture?  Is it used for violin bows?
>
> Brad Calvert
> Melbourne, Australia
>
>