Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . ar-ing his mothers wheel going. These processessound short in the telling, but were long and ard-uous. I have seen cards—a sort of curry-combfor making the wool into rolls ready to be on a large wheel must be done standing,and when we realize that for every yard of yarnspun, the spinner must walk two yards, we canrealize the miles of tramping required to spinenough to make a suit of clothes. (Mrs. Peek thendescrilies the tedious process of reeling the yarnin skeins, the sujiplying of the wai-p, the coloringand weaving the yarn into cloth and
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . ar-ing his mothers wheel going. These processessound short in the telling, but were long and ard-uous. I have seen cards—a sort of curry-combfor making the wool into rolls ready to be on a large wheel must be done standing,and when we realize that for every yard of yarnspun, the spinner must walk two yards, we canrealize the miles of tramping required to spinenough to make a suit of clothes. (Mrs. Peek thendescrilies the tedious process of reeling the yarnin skeins, the sujiplying of the wai-p, the coloringand weaving the yarn into cloth and the manu-facture of the cloth into clothing for the boys andolder members nf the family by the mothers inthe home, or with the aid of a tailoress who usedthe needle instead of the sewing machine of to-day. ) The mothers knit all the stockings, madethe bread and butter, rendered the lard and tal-low after the butchering season, and from theremnants, with lye leached from ashes, manufac-tured the soap for laundry and toilet purposes;.
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