| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania. By Adrienne D. Hood. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 230 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8122-3735-8.)
On the surface, Adrienne D. Hood presents a cumulative, if not definitive, study of cloth manufacture in early British America. The Weaver's Craft builds upon the work of William Bagnall, Barbara Tucker, and, most recently, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in regard to the procedures of spinning, processing, and weaving but then does much more.	1
Hood develops The Weaver's Craft as a comparative case study of the methods used in southeastern Pennsylvania and southeastern New England cloth production. In doing so, she provides a concise and clearly written description of the motivations for, and the methods of, flax and flaxseed cultivation that were vital to the expansion of both home and shop/mill production of cloth in early America. Her unfolding of these processes and the interweaving of rural and urban goals subtly reveals the complexities of household economies in relation to commerce and commercial market production. In the case of southeastern Pennsylvania, The Weaver's Craft suits as a complement that has been too long in coming to Philip Scranton's Proprietary Capitalism (1983).	. . .

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