Making Satinet – the First Woolen Fabric of our Mills
Join us for this online Zoom session where we’ll learn about the early mills producing satinet, a cloth with a cotton warp and a woolen weft. This was cheaper and easier to produce than all wool cloth at the time, and often used local wool. The making of satinet went out of style by the 1860s, and was replaced by new modes of production.
Speaker: Peggy Hart is a production weaver, historian, teacher, and author. Her book, Wool: Unraveling an American Story of Artists and Innovation, was published in December of 2017.
This program is free and open to the public.