The Burninator

[sarahmichelef]

So tonight was textile guild meeting.  It ended up being just me & Irene sitting out on the driveway and burning swatches of the fabric that the guild inherited from Caitlin Dierdre.  There was some nice stuff, some gross stuff, a lot of cotton and mostly-cotton blends.  And one fabric that made us laugh.  I lit a swatch, dropped it on the ground, and we watched it burn.  And it burned.  It burned completely, and it ashed papery.  I wrote down "cotton".  Then Irene picked it up and smelled it.  She said, "This isn't cotton" and handed it to me.  I took one whiff and was immediately transported back to a Phish concert in Paris in March 1997.

That's right.  It was mostly hemp.  :^)