How to Dress and Undress your Home Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.

Also references this 'practical history' piece by @lowtechmagazine.bsky.social on the use of textiles on interior & exterior surfaces for passive heating & cooling:
solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/06/dres...

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Reused socketed timber length with discrete lost stop moulds to each end, repurposed within a later inserted 18thc stack..

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Symmetrical, stone single-storey cottage, ashlar dressings to windows and door, slate roof. Low stone wall in front, with rose arch over wooden gate.

Please shut the gate.
Myrtle Cottage, Gauldry, Fife. 1890 according to recent sales particulars. A bit of Scottish vernacular - although smarter than some in the village - mostly occupied by linen weavers in the mid-19thC #Fife #VernacularBuildings #ScottishArchitecture