Material Culture Now Open
Material Culture: Domestic Cloth-Making in 18th-Century New England
Open June 4, 2022-October 30, 2022
This exhibition explores the material culture of early domestic textile arts and the tools used to produce linen and woolen cloth in rural New England homesteads. Material goods provide a window into standards of living, self-sufficiency, economic diversification, and the transition from frontier life to settled communities.
Upcoming Programs
Lecture: Weaving Changes: From Hand to Power in Rural Maine
Textile Historian Rabbit Goody presents the role of the trade weaver in rural Maine before power weaving. The lecture focuses on the period between 1600 and 1870, a time when the textile industry went through changes from hand production to powered process in Europe and the United States.
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Fundraisers
Forgotten Frontier Catalog
Forgotten Frontier Catalog
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