Did you know coffee is most consumed beverage in world. How did coffee get this ranking? What country first figured out coffee was safe for consumption? When was first drink of coffee prepared? Where did first coffee shop come in being?

There are many questions about starting point of drinking coffee. It has been so long ago no one really knows all facts. But, one thing is for sure, coffee is most consumed beverage on planet.

In Beginning

It looks as if first trace came out of Abyssinia and was also sporadically in vicinity of Red Sea around seven hundred AD. Along with these people, other Africans of same period also have a history of using coffee berry pulp for more than one occasion like rituals and even for health. Coffee began to get more attention when Arabs began cultivating it in their peninsulas around eleven hundred AD. It is speculated that trade ships brought coffee their way. The Arabs started making a drink that became quite popular called gahwa--- meaning to prevent sleep. Roasting and boiling bean was how they made this drink. It became so popular among Arabs that they made it their signature Arabian wine and it was used a lot during rituals. After coffee bean was found to be a great wine and a medicine, someone discovered in Arabia that you could also make a different dark, delicious drink out of beans. This happened somewhere around twelve hundred AD. After that it didn’t take long and everyone in Arabia was drinking coffee. Everywhere these people traveled coffee went with them. It made its way around to India, North Africa, eastern Mediterranean, and was then cultivated to a great extent in Yemen around fourteen hundred AD. Other countries would have gladly welcomed these beans if only Arabs had let them. The Arabs killed seed-germ making sure no one else could grow coffee if taken elsewhere. Heavily guarding their plants, Yemen is where main source of coffee stayed for several hundred years. Even with their efforts, beans were eventually smuggled out by pilgrims and travelers. Coffee Shops Appear Around 1475 first coffee shop opens in Constantinople called Kiv Han two years after coffee was introduced to Turkey, in 1554 two coffee houses open there. People came pouring in to socialize, listen to music, play games and of course drink coffee. Some often called these places in Turkey “school of wise”, because you could learn so much by just visiting coffee house and listening to conversations.

In sixteen hundreds coffee enters Europe through port of Venice. The Turkish warriors also brought drink to Balkans, Spain, and North Africa. Not too much later first coffee house opens in Italy. There were plenty of people also trying to ban coffee. Such as Khair Beg a governor of Mecca who was executed and Grand Vizir of Ottoman Empire who successfully closed down many coffee houses in Turkey. Thankfully not everyone thought this way.

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AHHHH! How to keep jean cloth from unraveling?

How authentic do you want to be? Can you zigzag your jean cloth, so it does not unravel because just by touching it, it unravels an inch!!

Depends on how authentic you want to be?

I couldn't zigzag my jean cloth because it is not authentic!

It would bother me too much!

So, you have two choices on controlling unraveling of your jean cloth. One is authentic and one is not!

The technique, which is not authentic, is also not machine done.

You can do a loose running blanket stitch - I don't think Victorians would have done this because it would have taken too long and uniforms needed to be produced quickly.

The easiest way to keep your jean cloth from unraveling is to cut pattern big and use an extra large seam allowance like ½ inch or more.

Many of uniforms were made out of it. Jean cloth was a very common generic fabric used during war. It comes in so many different colors and shades that people like it, but it unravels and unravels and unravels.

I double-stitch all seams - if you are going to stitch seams, keep stitches close and if you are doing it by machine, I would run it through twice.