"See
some of the implements the pioneer women used for manufacturing fabrics to make clothing
for their families.
The woman standing by the loom is Miss Nannie Gregory, one of
the very few expert weavers now (circa 1920), now left in the county.
She is wearing
the poke bonnet her grandmother wore many years ago. The loom, which was her
grandmother's, is a hundred years old, as are also the spinning wheels and reel seen in
the picture."
Source -- History Of Tazewell County And Southwest
Virginia, 1748 - 1920, by Wm. C. Pendleton. W.C. Hill Printing Company, Richmond,
Virginia. 1920. pp. 528 |