This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry
in colonial America. Immediately after the end of the Great
Migration into the Massachusetts Bay colony, settlers found
themselves in a textile crisis. They were not able to generate the
kind of export commodities that would enable them to import English
textiles in the quantities they required. This study examines the
promotion of domestic textile manufacture from the level of the
Massachusetts legislature down to the way in which individual
communities organized individual productive efforts. Although other
historians have examined early cloth production in colonial homes,
they have tended to dismiss domestic cloth-making as a casual
activity among family members rather than a concerted community
effort at economic development. This study looks closely at the
networks of production and examines the methods that households and
communities organized themselves to meet a very critical need for
cloth of all kinds. It is a social history of cloth-making that
also employs the economic and political elements of Massachusetts
Bay to tell their story.
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