One hundred years old and still running. That's the 1916 Davis & Furber carding machine, known as The Card, at The Green Mountain Spinnery, a worker-owned cooperative in Putney that produces and sells ...

The used machine from North Carolina weighs 15,000 pounds and required two days to change just half its 10,000 needles. It now sits in an old barn attached to a store on the main highway in Valley ...

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