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be in style and suitable for anyone from their late 20’s to early 60’s to wear,” she explained. “They last forever if you take care of them.”
The price seems almost cheap when measured against the labor Susan puts into her fabric creations. She begins at the warping mill in her living room, a contraption that looks most like the collapsible wooden clothes hangers hauled out of basements for drying the basic necessities on a rainy day.
After attaching the end of a skein of thread, Susan pushes the warping mill back and forth, like an uncertain youngster spinning the magazine rack to decide which comic book to buy. As it turns, she plays out more and more thread, tieing off every 12 stretched from pegs across the warping mill.
“It’s a way of counting and measuring each thread,” she reported. For instance, Susan explained, if she needs 20 yards of a Finished product and there are 12 threads to the inch, she’ll have to turn the warping mill back and forth 720 times to play out enough thread, tieing off each group of 12.
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