#Shakers

color & circles & spools color encircling chores spindles painted brilliant chrome yellow spools of red and yellow spools twined…

90,000 artifacts (textiles, ceramics, furniture, ironwork….) 20,000 American & European imprints 3,000 record groups of manuscripts, trade cards, photographs, ephemera…

community encircled past & present near & far ‘Hands to work. Hearts to God.’ Shaker mops made from so-called ‘waste’…

wool handcarders, niddy noddys, spinning wheel parts and wooden mitten molds. ‘tunnel’ bonnet forms for a sister, wide brimmed brethren…

The Shakers were not shy about retrofitting or changing design to accommodate new needs.  This early practice is evidenced by one…

And so, we provide our summer reading list. Summer brings us out into the garden and woods, appreciating nature’s daily…