Cottons, plain linen, and machine-made lace are now produced at such a low cost by machinery that hand-weaving evidently becomes an anachronism for the plainest descriptions of such goods.
Kropotkin explains how machinery has made hand-weaving economically unviable for basic textile goods.
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