County Cloth Inc

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A childhood interest in the American War and an indulgent father led me to participation in some of the Civil War Centennial events in the early 1960's. Once involved, I became increasingly interested in the uniforms that were actually worn during the great American upheaval. Though I met a few individuals during the Centennial who were wearing wool uniforms and proper (i.e. original) accouterments those people were the exceptions not the rule. It was not until the early 1970's, while working in Virginia, that I had the opportunity to closely examine Confederate clothing. To my surprise, I "discovered" that many of the garments were not all wool but some sort of wool/cotton fabric. With some hand weavers at Colonial Williamsburg, I discussed the possibility of producing some wool/cotton goods. I could not, however, interest my "Civil War" buddies in putting up the twenty dollars or so each that it would have cost us to procure such goods. At that point the project went into a deep slumber while my life in the contemporary business began.

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