Eyedazzlers: The Two-Century Romance of Navajo Weavers and Germantown Yarn
Posted by Linda Kowall-Woal on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Eyedazzlers: The Two-Century Romance of Navajo Weavers and Germantown Yarn The cavernous nineteenth-century factory buildings of Philadelphia’s John Wilde & Brother, the oldest independent rug yarn mill in the United States, seem out of place against the trendy restaurants and galleries of Manayunk, a showplace of modern urban renewal in the city’s greater Germantown neighborhood. A mural on the wall of the smallest mill building depicts images...read more