The art of weaving, by hand and by power, with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times (1844)
Gilroy, Clinton G · New York, Baldwin · leaf 31
manufacture in Great Britain, having already done so.After the death of Methuselah, the art of weaving appears tohave made considerable advances in many parts of the East, andparticularly in China, India, and Persia. The first loom of whichthere is any authentic record still in existence, is that… … is a representation of the loom, &c., which is of vertical construction,and seems to have been chiefly applied to the manufacture of plaids INTRODUCTION. 19 and chequers ; the patterns of which were most probably suggestedby the interlacing of bark or stripes of broad leaved plants. Indeedthe…
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