In a message dated 8/6/99 1:00:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Oh, and also I noticed, from the back, some original plaster squished
through
> the wooden lath (one of the few walls in the house that had survived) with
> the customary "horsehair" binder. Was it really horsehair? Was horsehair
> better than some other animal hair? (Oh no, cats again!!) How did they
> glean the horsehair?
One of my friends, in his efforts to amuse the preservationist of the 21st
century, has used golden retreiver hair as a binder.
And anyone who has owned a golden retreiver knows that there is an unending
supply of hair.
-Heidi