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Blooming Leaf of Mexico. They bought linen thread
or flax from peddlers and wove fine linens which are
still beautiful today. As their good clothes from the
States wore out, they produced sturdy homespuns
to replace them. Although the Industrial Revolution
filled their needs for a while, they found themselves
forced to fall back on their skills once more with the
outbreak of the Civil War. Wheelwrights were as
much in demand among ladies with warped spinning
wheels as they were among wagoneers.
Not all of the worn-out dresses and coats turned
into bedding; some met a more lowly fate-
reincarnation as floor coverings of various sorts, but
all sturdy, and each an attempt to create beauty.
Large items such as coats became mile-long stripsof rag to be woven into rag rugs for stair runners
or braided into sturdy ovals for the center of the floor.
Some of those rags became narrow strips, dyed and
hooked through burlap backing and turned into fan-
ciful representations of everyday life to brighten the
spot just where warm feet hit the cold floor in the
morning.
The Texas textile artist has never confined herself
to producing the strictly utilitarian. After a hard day
of canning or cooking or washing or hoeing, she
deserved a rest, but felt less guilty if her hands were
occupied with "fancy work." She probably didn't go
in much for samplers, like her New England
foremother, but her needles and shuttles surely
rebelled at the sight of an unadorned surface. With
her imagination and cotton floss (comes in six
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Abernethy, Francis Edward. Folk Art in Texas, book, 1985; Dallas, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67647/m1/132/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.