Driving through New Bedford along Route 195, it’s hard not to notice the long red brick buildings on either side of the highway. These are the old textile…
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Founded in 2002, Mountain Meadow Wool is an eco-friendly textile mill that is dedicated to supporting local ranchers.
We're always talking about what it is we want our country to become, about how we can save ourselves as a people....But maybe the answer is not somewhere in the future distance; maybe the answer is one we already had, and somehow threw away.
Where in the world is Ginger? I volunteered and was selected for a supervisory detail in the Kansas District Office for the month of April. The detail was full of challenges and many rewards. The following posts are photograph stories of my adventures in Kansas and Missouri. I'm going to start the posts with a woolen mill located in Lawson, MO. After taking the guided tour through the mill, I have a greater appreciation for textiles and SHEEP. "The Watkins Woolen Mill is among the best preserved example of a mid-19th century woolen mill in the United States. Its variety of machinery for preparing, spinning, and weaving--some of it modified during its life at the mill to improve its performance--presents an unsurpassed cross-section of textile technology at that time and is the finest collection of early textile machines in situ in North America. The mill was designed and built by Waltus L. Watkins (1806-1884), a machinist and master weaver from Frankfort, Kentucky." SHEEPIES!!! The woolen mill is the brick building in the back. Ken next to the mill's wood-fire boiler. The boiler provided 100-pounds of pressure to power the mill's 60-horsepower slide-valve steam engine that ran the mill's looms and machines. During the process, wool is fed into a picker, which prepares the wool for carding by pulling it apart into small, fluffy bits. Me carding wool by hand. Carding machines untangle individual fibers and reduce sheets of wool into a continuous strand (it was explained that these machines were adjusted while running and led to missing fingertips). Wool spun into yarn. Yarn ready to be woven into cloth. Ken working the cloth press. The general store within the mill. The Scalehouse - wagonloads of wool and grain were weighed prior to going to the factory or the gristmill.
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The Print This photographic print leverages sophisticated digital technology to capture a level of detail that is absolutely stunning. The colors are vivid and pure. The high-quality archival paper, a favorite choice among professional photographers, has a refined luster quality. Paper Type: Photographic Print Finished Size: 18" x 24" Arrives by Fri, May 24 Product ID: 4073656
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Furnishing fabric 'Pegasus' of Jacquard-woven mercerised cotton, designed by Raoul Dufy for Bianchini-Férier, France, 1919
We've been devoted followers of Erica Tanov ever since she opened her first store in Berkeley (in the building where her grandfather once ran a laundry
Hoy son un auténtico anacronismo, pero durante décadas fueron la manera más rápida de escribir textos largos de una manera pulcra y legible. Las máquinas de escribir siguen teniendo un encanto propio, aunque ya sólo sea como piezas de museo. A continuación os mostramos 13 modelos que están entre los más valiosos,…
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Enjoy candlelight in your living space and bring some coastal charm to the room with the San Pacific International Octopus Pillar Trio Candleholder. Three of the durable aluminum octopus' tentacles are equipped with bobeches for displaying pillar candles.
