The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania

by Adrienne D. Hood

Cloth was one of the most important commodities in the early modern world, and colonial North Americans had to develop creative strategies to acquire it. Although early European settlers came from societies in which hand textile production was central to the economy, local conditions in North America interacted with traditional craft structures to create new patterns of production and consumption. The Weaver's Craft examines the development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237358
• ISBN13: 9780812237351
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"