. >> tape is used to tie clothing together, might be used for shoelaces, might be used for tying yourket closed -- that kind of thing. and in case you're just "dye"-ing to know how they add color to the yarn, here's where that's done. >> in 1750, there would have been a lot of different kinds of dyes -- some local, which would have been affordable, and some imported, which would have been expensive. >> today, we use chemicals to create dyes, but in colonial times, all the colors came from mother nature. >> onion skins and daffodil heads -- very affordable, gives you beautiful yellows and golds, and you can mix them and overdye them like you do in art class. blue and yellow will give you a nice green. >> now the different-colored yarns are ready to be woven into cloth. this is our final stage. we are making fabric. this loom has four harnesses and four pedals, and so, as i raise two of the pedals, we make what is called a shed, and that's what our shuttle goes through. when i change my feet, i change the threads on the warp, and then i'm ready to have the shuttle go right through again