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 291
shing visions of the most unbounded wealth, as inthe dreamy age of alchemy, finding their projects abortive, sunkinto the lowest depths of despair, and committed suicide, by Mowingout their brains 7 Bobbin-net lace is a light semi-transparent texture of fine cottonthread, arranged in hexagonal… … The weft or filling, however is applied in quite a difl^erent way fromthat of plain cloth: it consists, in the first place, of an equal number ofthreads with the warp ; and these weft threads are made to revolveround every two threads of the warp, which changes the relativepositions of the warp…
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