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Book Review Hands to the Spindle by Paula Mitchell Marks
Marianne Hall Little reviews Paula Mitchell Marks’s Hands to the Spindle from Texas A M University Press. The work details pre Civil War pioneer women and homespun textile production with diary sources including Mary Crown over Rabb and the Woods family. It highlights labor intensive fabric making and preservation of women’s domestic craft.
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Marianne Hall
Paula Mitchell Marks
Walle Conoly
Texas A&m University Press
College Station
Texas
Marks
Mary Crown Over
Rabb
Zadock
Minerva Woods