The Old Garret
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"At the time when our tea-kettle was in its prime, we had no woollen or cotton factories in this country. Our carpets all came from Eu- rope, from England most of them, and poor THE OLD GARRET. 73 people could not afford to buy them. Families were in the habit of carefully saving all their woollen pieces, all their old woollen clothes ; not a scrap was lost.
'When a large quantity of these old woollen pieces was collected, it was a custom in the country to invite all the neighbors to come in, a...nd aid the family in cutting these fragments up into narrow strips, about an eighth of an inch wide, and then sewing the strips together, and winding them up into large balls. This was used for what the weavers call the warp or the filling of the carpet. The woof was made of yarn, spun usually in the house from wool taken from the backs of their own sheep, and colored with a dye made from the roots of the barberry bushes, or the poke weed, with the aid of a little foreign indigo, or perhaps 74 THE OLD GARRET.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
"At the time when our tea-kettle was in its prime, we had no woollen or cotton factories in this country. Our carpets all came from Eu- rope, from England most of them, and poor THE OLD GARRET. 73 people could not afford to buy them. Families were in the habit of carefully saving all their woollen pieces, all their old woollen clothes ; not a scrap was lost.
'When a large quantity of these old woollen pieces was collected, it was a custom in the country to invite all the neighbors to come in, a...nd aid the family in cutting these fragments up into narrow strips, about an eighth of an inch wide, and then sewing the strips together, and winding them up into large balls. This was used for what the weavers call the warp or the filling of the carpet. The woof was made of yarn, spun usually in the house from wool taken from the backs of their own sheep, and colored with a dye made from the roots of the barberry bushes, or the poke weed, with the aid of a little foreign indigo, or perhaps 74 THE OLD GARRET.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Eliza Lee Follen to read onlineMoreLess
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