We wrap them around us… but have you ever considered the origins of the names of clothing material? In English, organic fabrics have diverse origins. Sometimes these are Germanic in origin, such as wool, sometimes Latinate, as in cotton. Sometimes, the whole span of Indo-European languages comes into play, with soft cashmere taking its name from the region of Kashmir in South Asia. As technology … Continuer de lire The seams of language: textile names bind molecules and continents together