[TheForge] Leather or wool

[Bob Ehrenberger]

While demonstrating this last weekend I had someone tell me that blacksmiths
typically had wool aprons because leather was too expensive.  Does anyone
know anything about this? I would think that on the frontier that animal
skins would have been more available than wool.

Back on the medical question from a couple weeks age, it came to me that if
the blacksmith had a brine solution it may have a mild anticeptic property.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.