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Thread #61924 Message #4215221
Posted By: GUEST,George Stephens
13-Jan-25 - 01:26 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Four Loom weavers
Subject: RE: Origins: The Four Loom weavers
My wife Kathy ("kathwestra") and I recorded "Four Loom Weaver" on our Folk-Legacy CD "Birds Of Passage". In researching its origin, I ran across this note in the Oxford English Dictionary:
"When weaving was done on large steam powered looms, the standard to which weavers aspired was to operate four looms simultaneously; industry-wide, a weaver operated an average of 3.8 steam looms.”