Editor's Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article is by Marian Ann J. Montgomery ...
Two hundred years after the first crude power looms lurched into production, it’s hard to imagine a world in which fabric isn’t abundant. But in America before the Revolutionary War – and for many ...
Like other young girls in her native Maryland, Diane had been taught the rudiments of needlework, producing her first sampler at the age of six. It was not a thing of beauty, but it made her ...