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Cloth Collection

Cloth labels from American textile mills, 1800s

Jacquard loom, 1880s

Quilting party in western Virginia

Machine-spun thread on a bobbin in the Lowell mills

New England textile factory, 1800s

Shops in a medieval French town

Greek women at their household chores

Weaver at his loom in Europe, 1600s

Making silk in early China

Patriotic American colonial woman spinning to avoid importing British cloth

Seamstress, 1800s

Man weaving on a large hand-loom

Woman stitching a patchwork quilt, 1800s

Young girl learning to sew

Woman reenactor sewing, Yorktown battlefield

Linsey-woolsey cloth for 18th-century reenactors on sale at Yorktown

Burmese women and a spinning wheel

Knitting mill workers

Textile workers collecting their pay, 1890s

Textile workers in a northern mill

Lowell girls weaving in Massachusetts textile mills

Dry-goods sales room in Boston, 1850s

Dry-goods store in Boston, 1850s

Weaving at Spitalfields, England, 1700s

Power looms inside the Boott Cotton Mills

Woman weaving on the porch of her Appalachian cabin

Ladies enjoying their sewing circle

Women sewing at home by light from a window

Weaving on a laptop hand-loom

Woman reenactor sewing, Yorktown battlefield

Womens sewing circle reenacted at Yorktown battlefield

African-American woman reenactor sewing at Yorktown battlefield

Woman reenactor sewing at Yorktown battlefield

African-American woman reenactor in a sewing circle at Yorktown

Native woman spinning cotton in the ancient way

Calico cloth for 18th-century reenactors on sale at Yorktown battlefield

MIll worker tending mule-spinners

Women garment workers in the dressmaking department of a factory

A rural English cottage, with a woman spinning

Boott Cotton Mills on the Merrimac River in Lowell

Textile mills line the Merrimac and Concord rivers in Lowell

Fabric label for cloth woven in Lowell mills

Slaters Mill, first US textile factory

Textile mills along the Blackstone River

Reenactors weaving on belt looms at a Revolutionary War reenactment

Reenactor weaving on a belt loom at a Revolutionary War reenactment


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