Guest Post — Little-known Facts about Weaving
I have been writing this textile blog for 14 years, but recently my husband pointed out that so far I have failed to report on large areas of weaving history. From pterodactyls to… Continue reading
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Quaker Homespun, Part Five — Labor and Community
This is part five of my series on Thomas Fox, who was an English serge manufacturer in the late 1700s and early 1800s. His biography is called Quaker Homespun, and it is all… Continue reading
Quaker Homespun, Part Four – New Technology
This is part four of my “book report” on Quaker Homespun, a biography of Thomas Fox, a wool cloth manufacturer who lived through the Industrial Revolution. We won’t go into any specific machines… Continue reading
Quaker Homespun, Part Three — Thomas Fox and Global Trade
This is part of a “book report” on the 1958 book, Quaker Homespun. The whole book is available online and I read it in just a few sittings, to help satisfy my curiosity… Continue reading
Quaker Homespun, Part Two — America and “Pernicious Consequences”
In my previous post, we began to follow Thomas Fox, who ran an English serge-making business in the late 1700s. Throughout his career, he had to deal with many challenges, including ones caused… Continue reading
Quaker Homespun Supplement: Manufacturing Serge in 1728
This post is a supplement to my series on Thomas Fox, a Quaker who ran a family serge-making business in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The description of serge is from a… Continue reading
Quaker Homespun, Part One
When we look at the Industrial Revolution, it’s easy to find the dates of important inventions — 1764, spinning jenny; 1785, power loom — but it is harder to find out about how… Continue reading
ScrapHappy February 2026
Well, my 2026 project of reducing my fabric stash a bin at a time has not been successful so far. First I got a weird respiratory infection that sapped all my energy, so… Continue reading
ScrapHappy January 2026 — Christmas Blocks
I wrote about these scrappy blocks in December of 2025, and now they are sewn into a quilt top. I would love to say that I cleaned out my bin of Christmas-themed fabric,… Continue reading
Wrapping up 2025 and Planning for 2026
In 2025, for the first time, I used the services of a long-arm quilter. This enabled me to finish eight quilts, a high number for me. Here are two I haven’t posted yet;… Continue reading