Growing your own fiber to spin and weave into fabric for clothes is an exciting endeavor. However, it requires many skills that are no longer the norm. We have to relearn what and how to grow, how to ...

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A St. Lawrence County artisan is growing her own flax and spinning it into linen fabric. Ellen McCrea lives in Gouverneur and uses antique... Jan 31, 2020 — A St. Lawrence County artisan is growing ...

But just a few generations before -- before Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793, making cotton far more economical to produce -- it was linen, not cotton, that you would have found in common ...

Clothes weren’t always a matter of taking a trip to the local mall or chic boutique store to find the latest, greatest, in-style outfit. In fact, clothes were quite treasured items, partly because of ...

Even a casual observer of the hand-made wooden bed frames, woven laundry baskets or the flax spinning wheels made by the region’s Pennsylvania Dutch settlers in the 1800s can recognize the effort and ...