Today in History: Oct. 17, 1954 - Daughter learns craft of weaving as her mother did in Norway

Today in History revisits the Sunday, Oct. 17, 1954, edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story of a local woman who has taken up the craft of weaving, which her mother had learned in Norway. Daughter Learns Craft Mother Did in Norway Mrs. J. B. Bridston Makes Trousseau Linens On Loom; Weaving Gives Artistic Outlet As Designs Worked Out By EDITH F. THOMPSON FEW ARE THE PERSONS WHO CAN REMEMBER materials woven by their grandmothers for their sons and daughters, once the accepted custom. When Mrs. Warren A. Hedlin (Jo Anne Bridston) was married last May, among her friends who saw the linens in her trousseau, few knew that many of them had been designed and woven by her mother, Mrs. J. B. Bridston. It also is quite likely that there were several pieces of woolen material which her grandmother, the late Mrs. Andrew Pederson, had woven long ago in Norway. As the trend for hobbies became general, Mrs. Bridston says that her mother often asked her why she didn't t