Does Fabric Make You Happy? Read This!!

The usual excuses—

“I shouldn’t buy anymore fabric, if you saw the stash I already have”

“Yea! I just went through my fabric stash and got rid of so much stuff – now I can buy more”

“I don’t even know how to sew but I need at least 3 yards”

Well– read all about a woman about a woman who grew up with a textile hoarder

Her choice of material tells the story of her life growing up in the house of a hoarder. As a youth in Israel, Nedivi lived among cardboard boxes and plastic bags filled with clothes and pieces of junk collected by her mother, who appears as the image of an old woman in many of the artist’s mixed-media art.

Have you seen this on the MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TEXTILE MUSEUM website?

If you are a textile fan you can now explore their collection of over 2,000 publications!!!!

Explore their exciting research library named after the MVTM’s first curator, Mary Lettner. This library is home to over 2000 books, periodicals, sample books, and research notes of the textile industry and the Mississippi Valley.

Search the Centre’s collection.

I saw this first hand and became verklempt to put it mildly!!

 

 

 

1938- Perth Courier–With reference to Almonte, Mr. Annable says:  “Almonte was the most natural spot for water development.  William Thoburn established, I believe, the first woolen mill at this point.  Then Bennett Rosamond built the largest broad loom on the river and brought expert weavers from Scotland to work in it.  Later he built his #2 mill and still later absorbed the Thoburn interests.  In the 60’s and 70’s the village and thus it soon became known as the woolen mill center.”

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The Rosamond Woolen Company’s Constipation Blues

Tears of a Home -The Archibald Rosamond House