The services of a weaver were in demand.  Nicholas Dupui's ledger records multiple instances of orders being placed for specified yardages (17, 18, 19, 20 yards).  The man that would fulfill these orders was Samuel Venorman (who in one instance paid off a part of his charges at the store by "Weaving of 26 yards of Cloth").

One notes that all of these orders for weaving came after the Revolutionary War (orders were tendered in 1780, 1781, and 1783), when weaving became a basic necessity and an act of autonomy. 

So what's the process involved in weaving some linen yardage?  Truthfully, it's rather complicated. We begin with the growing of the flax, a crop planted on most farms that matured quickly and was easier than other materials to spin and process. To grow flax you plowed the land twice, planting seeds close together so that they grow tall with little branching.  You hand weed it, and, when ripe, pull it (as cutting will discolor it and keep the fiber from being sufficiently long).  It's back-breaking work. Then you dry it, remove the seeds, and rett it — submerge it in a pond for a couple of weeks — so it rots and the fibers separate. Then you dry it again, use a flax break to pound it to loosen the bark and connective tissue, and then scutch it — use a wooden sword-like tool to strike against the fiber to remove the bark and connective tissue. Next you hackle it by repeatedly drawing it through a tool with many long, sharp metal teeth that rids the flax of short fibers and bark.

Then it is spun.  Finally, after 5 or 6 people have spent time spinning and carding it, it goes to the loom.