PDF-[DOWNLOAD]-Shoddy: From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags (Science.culture)

The history of modernday old clothes recycling begins with a thing called shoddy Starting in the early 1800s shoddy was the name given to a new material made from reclaimed wool and to one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling Old rags and leftover fabric clippings were ground to bits by a machine known as the devil and then reused Usually undisclosed shoddyalso known as reworked woolbecame suit jackets army blankets mattress stuffing and much more Shoddy is the afterlife of rags And Shoddy the book reveals hidden worlds of textile intrigue   In Shoddy From Devils Dust to the Renaissance of Rags Hanna Rose Shell takes readers on a journey to discover shoddy from Haiti to the shoddy towns of West Yorkshire in England to the United States back in time to the British cholera epidemics and the American Civil War and into agricultural fields textile labs and ragshredding factories Shells narrative is both literary and historical drawing on an extraordinary range of sources from court cases to military uniforms mattress labels to medical textbooks political cartoons to high art Shoddy moves between genres bringing richly drawn characters and unexpected objects to life Along the way shoddy becomes equally an evocative object and a portal into another world   Almost since the time it first appeared shoddy was both ubiquitous and controversial In part because it was often so hard to detect it was inherently suspicious Public health experts worried about sanitation and diseasehow could old clothes be disinfected As well the idea of wearing someone elses old clothes so close to your own skin was discomforting in and of itself Could you sleep peacefully knowing that your mattress was very likely to be stuffed with dead soldiers overcoats The use of the term virgin wool the idea of virginity in relation to clothes in fact emerged as an effort by the wool industry to counter shoddys appeal to make shoddy seem shoddy Over time shoddy would capture a host of personal ethical commercial and societal failings And yet there was always within shoddy the alluring concept of regeneration of what we today think of as conscious clothing ecofashion sustainable textiles   Shell exposes an interwoven tale of industrial espionage political infighting scientific inquiry ethnic prejudices and war profiteering Discarded clothes may make many journeys over the course of several lifetimes Not only in your garments but under your rug in your mattress pads piano blankets in the peculiar confettilike stuffing in your mailing envelopes even in the insulation in your walls Though it began with wool over the past century the shredding devil has turned to synthetics from nylon stockings to Kevlar Shoddy is likely connected to something you are wearing right now After reading you will never use the word shoddy or think about your clothes the environment sustainability or the intermingled world around you the same way again  . 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