Neat!

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http://www.amazon.com/Finnish-American-Rag-Rugs-Continuity/dp/0870138642

My grandparents are in this book. My grandfather used to make looms for these rugs.

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What's really cool..

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is that they took the looms of old that were out put of business by shipping production over seas and used them to make spools of woven wire for carbon composite materials. The old looms were so sturdy they hardly had an issue retasking them.