We caught these two on the wildlife camera this past September. Unfortunately the light wasn’t good and there was hardly any contrast in the photos, so I used Photoshop Elements® to make them a little more interesting.
Whitetail doe and gray fox.
I have been writing this textile blog for 14 years, but recently my husband pointed out that so far I have failed to report on large areas of weaving history. From pterodactyls to Hollywood movies, weaving is the thread that binds it all together, as he is now ready to mansplain: I am here to […]
This is part five of my series on Thomas Fox, who was an English serge manufacturer in the late 1700s and early 1800s. His biography is called Quaker Homespun, and it is all online at archive.org. In April of 1783, Thomas married Sarah Smith of London. They went on to have 16 children, 9 of […]
This is part four of my “book report” on Quaker Homespun, a biography of Thomas Fox, a wool cloth manufacturer who lived through the Industrial Revolution. We won’t go into any specific machines that he used, but we will look at the difficulties he faced, many of which have parallels in our own times. Thomas […]
This is part of a “book report” on the 1958 book, Quaker Homespun. The whole book is available online and I read it in just a few sittings, to help satisfy my curiosity about the history of textile manufacturing. I enjoyed following one individual through the era of the Industrial Revolution. As the American Revolution […]
In my previous post, we began to follow Thomas Fox, who ran an English serge-making business in the late 1700s. Throughout his career, he had to deal with many challenges, including ones caused by international conflict, technological changes, and labor issues. In this post, we will focus on the American Revolution and its effects. I […]
A very artistic rendering. Good work. 🙂