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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/1/23 11:19, Nate Wessel wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi all, <br>
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<p>I'm going to try to summarize some of my thoughts / findings on
this issue thanks to all the helpful feedback here so far. <br>
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<p>I took a good look through (randomish sample) <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1pJG">everything
tagged shop=wool</a>, and in particular those with websites.
It does seem like these are almost entirely shops selling yarn,
though I did find at least one that wasn't but was also a
plausible "wool" shop with no yarn: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eaglewools.com.au/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.eaglewools.com.au/</a><br>
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<p>For the most part, I'm happy to have found a somewhat more
established tag that basically matches what I <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/yarn_shops">was
proposing here</a>. Though as I and some others have noted, I
think the primary thing here is that the shop sells <i>yarn</i>
(and knitting etc supplies), regardless of whether the yarn is
made of wool or silk or hemp or eyelashes or whatever. Is "wool
shop" a British English thing? I (North American) really hadn't
heard of that before this and would have called this a "yarn
shop" or "knitting shop". I even found that language on some
English language websites I looked at.<br>
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<p>Random aside: The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pl:Tag:shop%3Dwool">Polish(?)
wiki page</a> for shop=wool does seem to mention yarn and
knitting directly. <br>
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<p>Anyway, if there is consensus that `shop=wool` is an accepted
tag for a store selling <i>yarn</i>, I'm happy to list
`shop=yarn` as a deprecated tagging on that page and proceed
with shop=wool. <br>
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<p>With all that in mind, I went ahead and edited the (English)
wiki pages for shop=[ wool, sewing, haberdashery, fabric ] to
try and more clearly separate and identify these. For the
moment, the difference between a sewing shop and a haberdashery
is still unclear to me; is a sewing shop just a haberdashery
that also has some sewing machines and/or fabric? ...but that
can be a conversation for another day. </p>
<p>Let me restate some assumptions for the sake of debate:<br>
* shop=wool is a shop that sells yarn, even if there is no
literal wool on premises<br>
* a shop selling nothing but wool fabric is shop=fabric (stores
do specialize in wool suiting)<br>
* a shop selling nothing but wool clothes is shop=clothes</p>
<p>Thoughts?<br>
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<p>Agree with</p>
<p>* a shop selling nothing but wool fabric is shop=fabric (stores
do specialize in wool suiting)<br>
* a shop selling nothing but wool clothes is shop=clothes</p>
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<p>Disagree with </p>
<p>* shop=wool is a shop that sells yarn, even if there is no
literal wool on premises</p>
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<p>I think it would be better with shop=knitting, or shop=yarn.
There are some 28 shop=knitting, mostly UK, out to Turkie and
USA.. <br>
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<p>Consider that acrylic yarn is now also available.</p>
<p>I think 'knitting' is better as that covers not only the yarn.<br>
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<p>Haberdasher made an appearance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...
so it is an old term. <br>
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<p>There remain some specialists<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.williamgee.co.uk/product-category/haberdashery/">https://www.williamgee.co.uk/product-category/haberdashery/</a><br>
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