Naming Jack The Ripper: The Biggest Forensic Breakthrough Since 1888 - Plot & Excerpts
After all, it was no good finding it had human blood and semen on it, if it then turned out not to be old enough to date back to the time of Jack the Ripper. I was sure it was at least that old, but I needed to prove it. Not long into my research I made another, massive discovery, a leap forward that I had not expected. Considering where it was found, it seemed logical to assume that the shawl had been made in Spitalfields, which was known as a centre for the silk-weaving trade around the eighteenth century, when the Huguenot silk weavers colonized the area, and built the beautiful town houses that have now been preserved. From the late 1600s onwards the area to the east of the City of London, where open fields provided perfect conditions for growing mulberry trees (for silkworms) and the laying out of tenter grounds (for drying and stretching cloth), silk weaving was the major occupation in what is now the East End. The Huguenot houses can be identified by the long windows in their attic spaces, designed to capture as much light as possible for the delicate weaving process.
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