United StatesVirginiaWilliamsburgBruton Parish Church37°16’16” N 76°42’8” W
September 21, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Von Virginia Beach aus führte uns der Colonial Highway entlang mehrerer Stationen ins Landesinnere.
Unsere erste Station war heute Colonial Williamsburg, ein lebendes Freilichtmuseum.
Wie in einemRead more
United StatesVirginiaWilliamsburgBruton Parish Church37°16’16” N 76°42’7” W
September 28, 2015 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F
Wandered through Colonial Williamsburg today. It is an amazing collection of renovated and replicative buildings from the colonial period. There were also people in period clothing acting as if theyRead more
United StatesVirginiaWilliamsburgBruton Parish Church37°16’17” N 76°42’6” W
August 21, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
Our next stop was seeing how cloth was made. This was not clothes, just cloth. After the demonstration, they explained that people just bought the cloth and then made their own clothing, unless theyRead more
United StatesVirginiaWilliamsburgBruton Parish Church37°16’17” N 76°42’6” W
August 21, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
This contraption is used in the making of threads and cloth. By working a foot pedal, it spins around and opens and closes very quickly. It's purpose seems to be to wind the loose threads into bundlesRead more
United StatesVirginiaWilliamsburgBruton Parish Church37°16’17” N 76°42’6” W
August 21, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
Here's some finished threads, after being dyed different colors, fresh off that big wooden spinning machine. These threads are then, as I understood it, put onto a loom and woven into cloth. I'mRead more
United StatesVirginiaWilliamsburgBruton Parish Church37°16’17” N 76°42’6” W
August 21, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
Here's one of the craftsman working on the loom to make all those threads into cloth. It looks like a very repetitive and complicated process. Back then, people had to work so hard for everything theyRead more
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Bruton Parish Church
