books.google.com - Cloth was one of the most important commodities in the early modern world, and colonial North Americans had to develop creative strategies to acquire it. Although early European settlers came from societies in which hand textile production was central to the economy, local conditions in North America...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_weaver_s_craft.html?id=S2wfMg_SAs8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe weaver's craft