Thursday Challenge: Cloths
October 28th, 2009 by Leora
Woven and embroidered cloth at Cold Springs Historic Village, Cape May
At Cold Spring Historic Village in Cape May, New Jersey, you can watch women spin wool and weave cloth.
This week’s Thursday Challenge theme is CLOTHS (Colorful, Unusually, Fashionable, Komonos, Sari, Suits,…).
Nice one. This piece of cloth seems to have gone through a few centuries. We don’t learn how to do these things (spinning, embroidery, knitting…) any more, at least here we don’t.
I know some women that do embroidery and knitting (my mother-in-law, for one), but to see spinning one has to go to an old-fashioned village like this one. You haven’t been to any? I’ve seen at least one on Jientje’s site; maybe it was in Belgium.
I have seen such villages but there wasn’t always someone demonstrating.
that is so pretty
It’s becoming a lost art…