Many people operate their own cottage industries by making and marketing crafts. Weaving, crochet and knitting are among the craft work found in cottage industries. A good example is Louisa Goodrich, who founded Alanstand Cottage Industries in North Carolina. Goodrich was born in 1856 and died in 1944.
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The biggest known by mass is R136a1 : see List of most massive stars. The largest known by volume is UY Scuti : see List of largest stars. R136a1 is in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud , where it is also relatively easy to see things and be certain of their distance. UY Scuti is a mere 9,500 light-years away: our own galaxy is at least 100,000 light-years across.