Author: Paula Mitchell Marks
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890966990
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Of the spinning wheel and the clatter of the loom provided regular accompaniment to the lives of many Texas women immigrants and their families. Producing much-needed garments and cloth also provided an escape from the worries and isolation of frontier life. One early chronicler, Mary Crownover Rabb, kept her spinning wheel whistling all day and most of the night because the spinning kept her "from hearing the Indians walking around hunting mischief." Through the stories.