One hundred years old and still running. That's the 1916 Davis & Furber carding machine, known as The Card, at The Green Mountain Spinnery, a worker-owned cooperative in Putney that produces and sells ...

FRANKENMUTH, MI -- From the sidewalk, the Frankenmuth Woolen Mill looks a lot like other Main Street storefronts, but what happens inside is anything but ordinary. "The key is that we use the old ...

The used machine from North Carolina weighs 15,000 pounds and required two days to change just half its 10,000 needles. It now sits in an old barn attached to a store on the main highway in Valley ...

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Two or three miles down a dirt road that winds its way into the mountains west of Hall, there's a tan corrugated-steel building with a wood plank mounted above the door welcoming visitors to the Sugar ...

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