Spinning a yarn, literally, has become a favorite pastime of a growing number of Americans. In 1970, there were perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 people in the United States who spun their own yarn, using a hand ...

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But just a few generations before -- before Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793, making cotton far more economical to produce -- it was linen, not cotton, that you would have found in common ...