Never too late for a recap of our trip to Historic Richmond Town (...after all, it's been around a couple hundred years;-)) We enjoyed an educational program that included a hands-on activity of spinning wool (did you know they actually spun the spool around and around?) and breaking flax. Did you know you brush the flax with needle-like brushes? It sort of feels like really, really, rough hair. Did you know you make linen out of flax? Did you know that silk was imported from Asia, and was therefor very expensive and rare in the New World? Most colonial-period clothing was made of wool or linen. We got a great laugh when two of our classmates got to dress up in colonial-period clothing. We wondered what are uniforms might have looked like had we lived back in the day... Enjoy the slideshow!
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