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Sisters Lindsay and Phelps of the Canterbury community listed other

Shaker industries as including: the tanning of leather; the making of cloth

and leather shoes, and leather mittens, bridles, saddles and whips; shingle,

brick making and stone-cutting; making of apple barrels, wash & dye tubs,

churns and seed pails, wooden dippers; oak staves for molasses hogsheads

exported to the West Indies; bee-keeping; coonskin fur gloves; men's

shirts; wines, sauces and jellies; cucumber pickles and tomato catsup;

sausage; famous Shaker cloak. In the gift shops that all villages had, they

sold quantities of sugared flagroot, sugared lemon, orange and grapefruit

peel. The Sisters also claim the * Shakers made the first bird's-eye linen

and wove cloth constantly until 1853 when the cheapness of mill cloth made

it seem uneconomical. They continued to weave handkerchiefs, toweling,

carpets and spreads until 1865. The Kentucky Shakers wove some of the

first iridescent silk; and Sabbathday Lake made some of the first wrinkle-

proof material. The cotton and woolen fabrics they wove were dyed brown

with peach leaves or butternut bark, sand color with black walnut shucks.

On special looms the Sisters wove sieves into round ash frames from the

hair of horses1 manes and COWST tails.

In the Shaker Museum at Old Chatham, New York, is a sign which

reads: the first condensed milk was made by the Mt. Lebanon, New York,

Shakers, and is said to be originally prepared on this bench. " Gail Borden

himself had visited the Shakers at Mt. Lebanon, and worked with them before

he put his condensed milk on the market.