Home Textile Tool Museum Opens May 29 

The Home Textile Tool Museum in Orwell, Pennsylvania, opens May 29 for its fifth season. 

 The Home Textile Tool Museum is like no other museum. Not only can you see old spinning wheels, looms and tools of early America being used as they were 150 years ago, you can touch, and even try using them yourself (under safe and friendly supervision). 

 The Home Textile Museum's purpose is to preserve and rekindle an interest in making things by hand. They encourage visitors to touch the tools our ancestors touched, to sit at the looms they sat at, to put their feet in the depressions on the treadles of a spinning wheel made by their bare feet.

 On May 29, there will be demonstrations of blacksmithing  by  Richard Swensen, weaving and spinning by Cat's Cradle Guild, and woodworking by Chris Fisher.

 The museum is open rain or shine every Saturday May 29 through August 28, 2004. Admission is $3.

 The Home Textile Tool Museum two miles off Rt. 187 (south of Nichols, NY), between North Orwell and Rome, on State Route 1036. Their phone number is (570) 247-7175 Their Web site is http://www.hometextiletool museum.org/