Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1800-1830

"1810Maine Historical Society Sarah Bowman Winter's "fancy weave" coat, Bath, ca. 1825Maine Historical Society"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4

"Many twist mills now switched to weaving broad silks, as did the Haskell Silk Company in 1883."

Historic Clothing Collection - Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4

"The skirt is lined with an open weave cotton, and the bottom of the skirt is lined with a Moiré, or rippled effect, black horsehair."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"… the animals, preserving the food, spinning and weaving the clothing, cooking and tending the children. The first physician came to Mt."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Welcome

"… continue to take on great significance in weaving together the social fabric of the communities."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"Fancy porcupine-weave basket, Penobscot, 1862Abbe Museum Living in scattered homesteads and small hamlets, these hardscrabble settlers busied…"

New Sweden Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… hides, braiding sweetgrass, preparing ash strips, weaving baskets and, of course, socializing and playing games."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… scurry among the shaded plant stalks, marsh wrens weave the grass blades into swaying nests, insects chew the leaves for their sugar before…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… Middle School history teacher, somehow managed to weave into his lesson plan a session on historical artifact recording and documentation."

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"The wide variety of women’s hand crafts, such as weaving, quilting, and crocheting, is reflected in the Vickery-Shettlewroth Collection, with a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… gardening, dairying, food preparation, spinning, weaving, clothes-making, laundry, and childcare. Women also traded with nearby households, and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… home, beginning with raising the sheep and then weaving the wool. They caught cod from small boats and salted it."

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"… before it can be spun into yarn for knitting or weaving into cloth. That must have helped the local community by providing a easy way for people to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"They planted vegetables and flax for weaving, bought two beef critters, and made other preparations."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… areas for grain and corn storage, a room for weaving and living quarters for hired hands; a milk room for butter making, a pig house and a space…"