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Blog There are now a number of ways to follow Brahms Mount online. Obviously, you’ve already found our blog! Here, we’ll make posts about textiles, mill history, and how we make our blankets. If there’s something you’re interested in learning more about, be sure to comment in the section below! (Subscribe to our feed here.) Like our [...] Brahms Mount is excited to announce our new line of organic soaps. Made in Maine, these soaps feature a combination of olive, palm and coconut oils mixed with pure rain water to produce an exceptional, rich lather. These beautiful handmade soaps are a wonderful addition to the Brahms Mount product line and compliments what our brand [...] A new year, a new blog writer (hello!), and some lovely new additions to the Brahms Mount Day Blanket Collection – the weather in Maine during this time of year may not be anything to get excited about, but there are plenty of things at Brahms Mount keeping our spirits high right now. The Brahms Mount [...] The history of textile mills in America seems an unlikely topic of national interest, but within their history you can find the cornerstone of our Industrial Revolution. The mechanization of labor was not an option for textile weaving until shuttle looms were introduced in England, transforming one of the country’s main exports and changing the relationship [...] Name: John C. Smith Position: Master Weaver Working Since: 1998 Off Hours: Playing guitar, spending time with family, watching movies, and playing with three-year-old son Bodhi Quote: “Light Sabers are way better than Tasers.” One of the coolest coworkers I’ve ever worked with is Brahms Mount’s master weaver John Smith (the dreaded John Smith!). John oversees our four antique shuttle [...] WHAT IS DEW-RETTED FLAX? Photo by Noel Mount The Joybilee Farm in British Columbia is a great source for naturally dyed fibers if you hand weave at home. They are also a wealth of knowledge from fiber facts to DIY growing, harvesting and dying. I happily found their site while trying to find a decent article [...] Beautiful Breanna last year in February, born January 18, 2009. She looks so warm in our 100% Cotton Checkmate Baby Blanket in Lemon. Thank you Aunt Ingrid for sending us the photo! Take a look at all our Baby Blankets HERE. Maine’s textile tradition stretches back to the 1800s, when almost every family spun fine yarn from local flax and wool, as well as from imported cotton. To fulfill rapidly growing demand, mills sprang up along major rivers. Maine textiles became world-renowned. Generations thrived. Building upon the strength of this tradition, Claudia Brahms and Noel Mount founded Brahms Mount more than twenty-five years ago in Hallowell, Maine. They purchased and renovated buildings constructed in 1866 and built a mill overlooking the Kennebec River, just upstream from where merchant ships once docked to trade Maine textiles around the [...] |
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