Women spinning yarn in an encampment at a Sealed Knot English Civil war reenactment event. Charlton park, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, UK

•May 11, 2022•
The Illinois Amish Heritage Center will host it’s third annual Sheep to Clothing to Quilts event on Saturday, May 14th (with a rain date of May 21st) from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. There will be a $5.00 admission fee.
The event will again feature activities to show how clothing and quilts were made in 19th century and before. Even though woolen mills were making wool cloth by the 1860s, many families still spun their own thread and wove their own cloth. Worn out clothing was turned into quilts.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.