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Changing
Exhibits
Exhibit hours:
Tuesday through
Friday, 10 am to 5 pm
Saturday, 10 am to
2 pm
$5.00 Admission
Donation
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The Weaver's
Trade
December 1,
2007-November 1, 2008
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The Weaver’s Trade exhibit -
December 1, 2007 through November 1,
2008. The exhibit portrays the weaver’s trade that was
an essential craft in late eighteenth to mid nineteenth
Pennsylvania German rural communities in southeastern
Pennsylvania. The exhibit includes
a re-creation of an eighteenth century Pennsylvania German
weaver’s shed with an original eighteenth century
Pennsylvania German two post floor loom warped for weaving
along with the spooling rack, warping mill and other
equipment and textiles. A bedroom setting with a rope bed
and blanket chest displays woven coverlets and other
textiles from the Mennonite Heritage Center and private
collections. Exhibit sponsors include the Pennsylvania
Humanities Council, Byers’ Choice LTD, Hiram and Mary Jane
Hershey, Harleysville National Bank, Harleysville Savings
Bank and Richter’s Drafting & Office Supplies Co., Inc.,
Lake Clemmer, Dan & Shirley Lapp. |
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Updated 06-19-2008
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