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In this era of service jobs and office work, most of us have never been inside a factory. Several decades of global outsourcing and a flood of cheap imports have decimated American factories and hollowed out once thriving communities. Today we have little idea where, or how, the shirt on our back is made. As we become increasingly immersed in the digital realm, we are losing touch with our analog roots. Yet we still live in a physical world and surround ourselves with material things, and many of these things are still made in America.

For the past ten years Christopher Payne has embarked on …