Winter Break: Keeping Warm: Cloth & Clothing

Before factories and fast fashion, clothing was handmade, mended, and reused. Join us for activities focused on the labor, materials, and skills required to clothe a household in the colonial era. Try your hand at weaving, creating small yarn coasters using simple cardboard looms—an accessible introduction to a skill that was once essential to everyday life. Participants can also make colonial paper dolls, choosing warm layers and accessories appropriate for winter weather in the 18th century.