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Popular Superstitions of the Winter Season: 1840
POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE WINTER SEASON From: Saturday, December 26, 1840; Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics (Portsmouth NH) page 2 Associated with Christmas and the New Year are many of the popular superstitious rites and ceremonies of former times, … Continue reading
New Hampshire Glossary: Niddy Noddy
Two hundred years ago, every self-respecting New Hampshire woman…
… used a niddy-noddy, or at the very least she knew … Continue reading
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Tagged flax, New Hampshire, niddy noddy, skein, wool, yarn
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Niddy Noddy
A tool used during weaving to measure recently-spun yarn. See article in Glossary section for more information. Continue reading
New Hampshire Glossary: Flax
flax – a plant used to make thread, and (once woven) a cloth called linen.
In colonial times the … Continue reading
Hetchel from early 1800s
A hetchel is an instrument or tool used in converting the flax plant to thread, in order to create linen … Continue reading