Hemming Cotton
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A short poem titled "Hemming Cotton," printed on one page of the Continental Monthly in March 1862. It is a Civil War-era piece that uses sewing imagery (needles, hemming, shirts) as a metaphor for the Union blockade and encirclement of the Southern cotton states. It contains no technical textile instruction.
- Type
- Other
- Date
- March 1862
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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