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Fascinating, as usual. It did make me think of a notable literary character who was a weaver and male--Silas Marner.

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Though many who have never spent time in rural places don’t realize it, contemporary farm and ranch life remains a strongly egalitarian enterprise, much as it has been through time.

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Weaving, baking and brewing, perhaps three of the cornerstones of civilization.

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I wonder how the comments went(!). But I also have a question. You've probably heard of the British, "anti-feminist" writer Mary Harrington. (Although, in my view, she goes way too far in her critique of technology and feminism, she makes cogent arguments for her beliefs, which is both unusual and useful.) One of her assertions is that the everyday lives of women were disrupted and their personal agency diminished when industries such as weaving moved out of the home and into the factory. Do you have any thoughts on that?

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".... a bunch of strings." Yes!

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Hear, hear! You tell 'em, Virginia!

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