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[Woman at Spinning Wheel]

Photograph of Ruffin Hill, from Austin, operating a spinning wheel at the Texas Folklife Festival. The wheel is in the foreground and Hill is sitting at a chair on the other side of it, in the middle ground. She is pulling a string of spun fiber out and is showing it to a little girl. Another little girl is on the right, holding a piece of thread.

Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

Creator: Smith, Jim

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Kathleen Smolik Laury Demonstrating Drop Spinning]

Photograph of Kathleen Smolik Laury demonstrating drop spinning at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a floral pioneer dress with an apron and a bonnet. With her left hand she is holding up the raw fibers to be spun and her right hand is holding a dowel which collects the finished yarn.