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Title: Marion County in the making
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Fairmont (W. Va.). High School. J.O. Watson Class Newman, Dora Lee Watson, James Otis
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Publisher: (Baltimore : Meyer & Thalheimer
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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twothreads to a split. The ticking was closelywoven in fine twilled stripes. Sometimes thetow was used in combination with wool, andthen the product was called linsey-woolsey.The hunting shirts of the men were made ofthis material. The early settlers often madeshirts of cloth woven from the fibers of thecommon nettle, instead of flax. These musthave proven as severe instruments of torture asthe hair shirts of the ascetics of the MiddleAges, for the cloth was so stiff that it was neces-sary to soften it by rubbing it between the hands.Great-great-great-grandfather reared his flocksand sheared them of their coats—rusty, full ofbriars and cockleburrs, but capable of beingtransformed into the whitest and fleeciest of wool.The fleece was carded into rolls about two feetlong and as thick as ones finger, spun on thebig wheel, and woven on the loom into blank-ets and other articles for winter use. Grand-mothers great-grandmother did the weavingherself, but grandmothers mother sometimes 148
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MISS ADALINE DAVIS, AGED 86. IN SHORT GOWN MADE AND WORN BY HERGREAT-GRANDMOTHER. ELIZABETH LITTLE BATTEN Before the Rule of Fashion had hired help when there was an extra amountof work to be done, for times had improvedsince her grandmothers day. Grandmothers great-grandmother knew moreabout the practical use of trees and herbs thanmost women of to-day. Out to the woods shewent, digging up roots and stripping varioustrees of their barks to use in coloring her cloth.She knew that sumac and black oak and wal-nut hulls would yield a black dye, and thatyellow root, yellow poplar and tulip root wouldcolor her garments yellow. She also knew thatthe best preparations were made by boiling theroots and the barks in just enough water tocover them, and that better results were obtainedwhen the mixture was allowed to cool beforethe yarn was weighted to the bottom of the ves-sel in which the dye was made. The followingwas a well-known receipt: Peel off walnut bark and cover with water in awooden

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