The Bobbin and Shuttle
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| The Bobbin & Shuttle Telling the Story of the Southern Cotton Mill People Before the last whistle blows, a keepsake of memory and history for our children and the future |
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Call it a linthead literary movement, a sort of mill hill renaissance. There’s a grass roots effort underway to save the history and heritage of Southern cotton mill culture. "Equestrian purists have ‘The Horse and Hound.’ Domestic divas have ‘Martha Stewart Living.’ Now legions of mill people have a magazine of their own...The Boobin & Shuttle." Jason Cato, The HeraldRock Hill, South Carolina January 16, 2005 A new publication preserving a critical piece of history made its public
debut this month. The magazine-format "Bobbin & Shuttle" includes over a
score of feature articles by mill town authors, portraying the ordinary and
extraordinary lives of those who tended machines but also built strong
families, packed churches and Order Info: Textile Heritage Center Cooleemee, NC 27014
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unique neighborhoods. Within its color cover are 64 pages of photos and
stories about mill town Christmas parades, weaver’s tools, iron skillets,
"outlaw" baseball and the many uses of Karo buckets.
