Threads

T and I were discussing the topic when for some reason the conversation veered off to talking about the origins of Threadneedle Street. We didn’t get very far before she said we’re losing the thread. Thanks for that intro T.
I had been thinking, as I live in Lancashire, that I’d use cotton as the subject of this blog but then got to thinking about what was used before that material and we have to go far back in human history to the Palaeolithic Era, let’s say about 50,000 years ago or more.