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
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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
A Balkan Treasure
A few weekends ago I went to an antique show. I had no intention of buying anything; I was there to meet up with an antique dealer I had met at a previous… Continue reading
Guest Post: A Weaver Shares Her Path
Back in September of 2018, I got an email from a woman in Tennessee, Carol Devenski, who was fairly new to weaving. She had seen a weaving swatch that she liked on my… Continue reading
Eighty Years Ago in Mexico
Finding clues in the most unlikely of places… More beautiful textiles arrived from my mother-in-law’s house. She told me that her in-laws had traveled to the West and Mexico on camping vacations every… Continue reading
Tattered Treasures
As my mother-in-law continues to downsize, she is contributing to some sizeable up-sizing of our own household, and the treasures she is passing on to me came from a generation even further back,… Continue reading
Tracking Textile History: The Minoans, Part Two
Before we get into more of Minoan textiles, we need to take a short look at how this culture was brought back from three thousand years of oblivion. There is a fast-paced, readable… Continue reading
On the Trail of Sail History – the Vikings
We left off somewhere around 1350 BC, when the Mycenaean kings may or may not have been requiring plain linen cloth to be woven as a tax or tribute intended for sail use. … Continue reading
A Great Coat for Great Weather
This coat belonged to my husband’s grandfather! Gary Cooper wore one like it in The Fountainhead, which was made in 1949, so I would guess this is from the 1950s. It is only… Continue reading