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Then the strands of raw silk are woven loosely together by hand into a big chain for the trip either down the hall to the loom in Susan’s bedroom or to the Connecticut ( designer’s dye pots.
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“Then comes the hardest part—beaming on,” Susan continued. The threads are cleaned, raked and pulled from the loose chain, one person holding while a second winds each onto the back beam of the loom, all threads spread equally and all under equal tension.
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