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Florence MA Past and Present

Florence MA Past and Present

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Florence MA Past and Present

11×12 in

Weft: wool, silk, metallic threads; Warp: cotton

A prominent 19th Century mill town of progressive industry and education, Florence was the home of utopian abolitionists, Sojourner Truth among them. In the tapestry, her portrait appears ethereally in the sky next to a silk moth and cocoons which are reminders of the past silk industry, such as the Corticelli Silk Company which was one of the world’s largest producers of silk thread, here represented by the Corticelli logo – a kitten playing with a spool of thread in the lower left. Today, the Pedal People that haul trash on bicycles and Café Evolution are based in the former mill district of town.

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