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"Weaving Indiana" presents the lives and work of two rag-rug makers who learned to weave on their family farm in Bartholomew County, Indiana. Dee Nierman began to weave as a teenager. For her and her niece, Margaret Luckey Snyder, making rugs is more than a hobby. It is a practice deeply rooted in family history and community life. Dee weaves on a loom made in 1864 for her maternal greatgrandmother, Sarah Cox Collins. Margaret also weaves on a hand-made loom passed down through several generations of the family. For many women in their family, weaving has been an important source of income-particularly when resources were scarce.