Weaving in Greenfield Village

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Students of Henry Ford’s Edison Institute Schools learned traditional crafts, including textile weaving. In Greenfield Village, presenters continue to practice and demonstrate the weaving process on a variety of looms.

Children from Edison Institute Schools Weaving on Small Hand Looms, 1946-1947

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Weaving Shop - 1

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Edison Institute Schools Student Weaving, circa 1935

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Drawing of a Jacquard Loom Punched Card, by Sidney Holloway, 1934 - 1

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Sidney Holloway with Student at the Cotton Gin Mill (now the Weaving Shop), Greenfield Village, 1949

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Carole Ashley at the Jacquard Loom, Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, 1977 - 1

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Student Weavers in Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, 1930

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Weaving Demonstration by Ida Gustafson in Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, 1954

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Weaving Demonstration in Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, 1935

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Edison Institute Schools Students Weaving, circa 1935

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Young Man at Power Loom in Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, circa 1935

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Looms inside the Weaving Shed near Plymouth Carding Mill, Greenfield Village, April 1, 1940

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Weaving Demonstration in Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, circa 1935

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Student Weavers in Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, 1930 - 1

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"Carding Mill, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan," Published 1954

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Joanna Reader at a Loom in Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, circa 1944

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Frank Caddy at the Power Loom in Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, 1935

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Bob Kaiser Using the Jacquard Loom in Gunsolly Carding Mill, Greenfield Village, 1954

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Draw Loom inside Gunsolly Carding Mill in Greenfield Village, April 1, 1940

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Jacquard Loom, 1934 - 1

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