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| Drop spindle and cotton |
When we visited Matera, a city where people built their homes into natural limestone caves, I saw an old drop spindle and loom in a museum! It was pretty fantastic to see the evidence of textiles, and especially spinning, since it seems that very few people in Italy still spin.
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| Drop spindle |
There was also this stick with cotton on it, as a way to hold the fibers. The museum also had an old hand-crank machine for wringing out clothes.
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| Old loom |
I also learned that the women would often rent a large loom, just for the winter, to make the family's cloth.
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| Wringing machine for laundry |
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