During my visit to Germany in December 2019, my mother and I cleared out my uncle’s utterly cluttered apartment.  One of the treasures we found was a roll of handwoven linen. It had been woven by my maternal great-grandmother Luise, most likely during the first years of her marriage in the late 1890s or early 1900s before she had her hands full with four children (the youngest being my grandfather) and feeding the farmhands and grain mill workers at the family operations every day. Continue reading →