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Labor-saving looms (1907)

Draper corporation. [from old catalog], Draper, George Otis, 1867-1923 · [Milford, Mass., Printed by Milford journal co.] · leaf 24

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ors, but it is still remarkable forits strange and striking, if not barbaric beauty. Such workhas been highly prized by generations that are gone, but prob-ably never brought so high prices as are paid now by those whoappreciate art in forms unlike those which are conventionallyregarded as correct,… … the Gulf brought the first spinning wheels the New World eversaw., and with these came skill to spin fine linen and wool, andto weave honest cloth and beautiful napery. In those daysevery farmhouse, and many another home, held its spinningwheel, but not every pioneer mother owned her own loom.Many…

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