Tazewell County, Virginia
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Nannie Gregory
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"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


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