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The history of spinning thread and weaving fabric is long. The long history has been shaped mostly by the hands of women, probably because, by its nature, it was a comparatively easy job to do while raising a child. According to The Golden Thread (2018), written by Kassia St. Clair focusing on the history of threads, millions of women before the Industrial Revolution picked mulberry leaves, fed silkworms, spun thread by hand, and sat in front of the loom to weave the cloth to the point where even their fingernails fell out. When textile factories appeared, women worked 60 hours a week, …