1Abigail Adams to John Adams, 28 April 1783 (Adams Papers)
of this favorite of America, is woven of an admirable texture and proves the great skill, wisdom, and abilities, of the Master workmen. It was not fabricated in the Loom of France, nor are the materials english, but they are the product of our own American soil, raised and Nurtured, not by the gentle showers of Heaven, but by the hard Labour and indefatigable industery and firmness...
2Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
The King of France has publishd an Arret prohibiting British Manufactories under severe penalties, in concequence of which 8 thousand Gauze and Muslin looms have stoped working here.
3Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 3 February 1794 (Adams Papers)
Which snaps the thread of life’s disastrous loom;