homespun-cloth

Updated: August 25, 2026

The English-speaking settler, equipped with ax and sickle and flail, with spinning wheel and iron kettle, lived a life almost equally primitive and self-contained. He and his good wife grew the wheat, the corn, and the potatoes, made the soap and the candles, the maple sugar and the "yarbs," the deerskin shoes and the homespun-cloth that met their needs. They had little to buy and little to sell.

Oscar Douglas Skelton - The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor