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Women are steering the ship in this season 7 segment of Weekends with Yankee (episode 706). We are on Nantucket, Massachusetts, to meet Bess Clarke and Rebecca Peraner, co-owners of Nantucket Looms, a business producing high-quality, hand-made textiles. In this segment, we talk to Bess to learn about the history of the business and watch Rebecca weave beautiful, artisanal textiles on the loom.
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