[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - yarn shops

[Philip Barnes]

On Tue, 2023-01-03 at 09:16 -0500, Nate Wessel wrote:
> shop=wool ... this seems like almost exactly what I'm proposing. And
> is used much more frequently than shop=yarn. 
> And yet for me, I never even thought to search for this. And the word
> 'yarn' doesn't actually appear anywhere on the page or it would have
> shown up in my searches of the wiki. 
> It's also not referenced anywhere on the shop=sewing page, which
> explicitly mentions knitting needles, etc. Nor on the shop=fabric nor
> shop=haberdashery pages. 
> It seems like maybe the real problem here is that the various tags
> related to the "fibre-arts" aren't all that well documented yet and
> not at all well cross-referenced. Would anyone object to an attempt
> to better cross-reference and distinguish these categories? 
> In particular it seems to me like shop=wool should encompass things
> like knitting needles, and specify that it would be selling (wool)
> yarn, and not wool fabric as that would fall under shop=fabric. 
> I would also want to drop references to yarn and knitting needles
> from shop=sewing, pointing to shop=wool for that. 
> It seems like shop=haberdashery and shop=sewing need some further
> discussion, as they seem almost impossible to distinguish from the
> wiki documentation. Personally, I always thought of a haberdashery as
> a hat shop?? I somehow hadn't even heard of that tag before this
> discussion. 

These were common back in the 70s, now a big part of the problem is
that most of this trade (along with other many other small specialist
retailers) have been taken up by bigger general purpose shops and craft
shops.

Thinking where do I know of a wool shop locally the answer is I don't
but thinking of where have I seen wool for sale I immediately came up
with The Range https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Range_(retailer) and
Charlie's (similar to The Range based in Wales and The Borders).

Phil (trigpoint)