Yeah, on thinking more about it, the instrument “horn” is very rarely made from the material “horn,” and certainly wasn’t named after the material, instead being named after the object.
DENIED!
Back in the “weird and archaic” category: “a birch” in the sense of an instrument of corporal punishment originally constructed from a bundle of birch twigs was frequently made of other substances instead.
In fact, a timorous peek into some of the dimmer corners of the interwebs reveals several reports of some unfortunate but apparently willing young lady being “punished with a leather birch”.
So, “a birch” is no longer necessarily made from birch.
Oh, and “a tea” (singular in the same sense that “an ice cream” is) is no longer necessarily made from tea. It can be made from all sorts of other dried leaves or flowers rather than those of the tea plant. How did we miss that one up to now?
Heresy.
The word tisane exists for a reason.
Around here it was a hickory.
And in Photoshop, if you want to extend the size of your art’s background, that’s referred to as the “Canvas”. So you go to the menu and select “Canvas Size”.
@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness BTW, what did you think of the two examples of material-named scarves (post #176)