Another Raddle

[lindafowens]

Dear All, I am still learning the "rules" of the game, so I was a little miffed when nobody believed my real def of "raddle"  to be a weaving term, as I expressed in comments to Elliott.  I just realized, with the help of Judith and Fran, that you demand sources.  I supposed that my weaving teacher Norma Smayda, who has been Pres. of the Weavers' Guild of America, would be enough of a source, but you do not know her or me.  I thought that my experience teaching weaving occasionally in the past would be enough, but you demand print, as you ought.  I will get back to you.  "Someone" must have moved the dozen or so weaving books I own, and it was time to finish organizing my stacks of various books and videotapes and art materials, anyway.  My interests and collections are varied and profuse, alas.  Somewhere in this vast accumulation of treasures there is a copy of Hardy's The Return of the Native, where The Reddleman is a character (he sells the sheep dip).  I alway hoped to find more info on reddle sheep dip, as I have a number of outdoor animals, (but no sheep); but "reddle" wasn't in my dictionary.  Perhaps it was raddle after all. Perhaps also, there is the origin of "dyed in the wool".  Probably some Aussie films  (the ones with the sheep-shearing contests) could have a bit of dyeing, as well.  Is the sheep dip against parasites or in lieu of branding?.  More later, when I find stuff.  Linda
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