Links for your delectation.

Glasgow Textile Conservation has a blogpost about the conservation of an 1820s cap. More textile links? Aisling has posted about three different variations of a single pattern (in German, though).

Jstor Daily has a nice post about weird names of food.

In other news, the sun is shining, the cat is napping on the sofa, and I'll be packing stuff into the car now for the trip tomorrow. And finally - here's a gratuitous pic of the madder in the garden, growing nice and tall in the spring sunshine.
It is not alone, this little stalk. In fact, madder has a tendency to take over as much ground as it can - a bit like peppermint plants... only with more red in the roots. This autumn, I really have to harvest some of the madder roots, or there will be no space left for anything else!