Ladies and one or two gentlemen of the Pottawatomi Spinners and Weavers Guild Saturday seemed peaceable enough. Article content

Some conversed with visitors while others quietly tended their work at spinning wheels and looms on the second day of their 50th anniversary show and sale in the downtown library auditorium. Article content

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Their warm, hand-made fabrics, spun and woven as has been done for centuries, were fashioned into sweaters and hats, a plush bear, a hand towel, an artistic wall-hanging and anything else the makers wished.

But Lynn Broughton’s hands which held blue-green fleece, and her stocking feet which moved quietly up and down on the wooden spinning wheel treadles, were really part of an “act of rebellion,” she said with a smile.

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