### id366460025 recycled linen books were vulnerable to moths > moths naturally breed in clothes, notably when they are kept in damp conditions, and it is recommended to expose the clothes to the sun or "other sweet air". The second part introduces potential insecticides or at least insect repellents: bitter and good-smelling plants to be "laid among such clothes", such as laurel (bay leaf) and cypress wood. In the original Latin version, books were also protected: Knight (2016) notes that fragant plants were also used to protect books, which were increasingly made of recycled linen and thus targeted by pests. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gaqcsy4kxe80pkn0syaddjjg) - [[If I Was, Say, a Late Medieval English Peasant, How Would I Protect My Wool Clothes, Blankets, Etc From Clothing Moths by gerardmenfin#id366460025 recycled linen books were vulnerable to moths|View in Vault]] - [n] #articleseed/overviewTopic/recordkeeping and useful for the history of books and linen, particularly given [[linen clothes sources]] and the general idea that [[era classification is difficult and arbitrary]] — relevant for the idea of the importance of a loom era, which might be fun to do as a #storystem/fic