History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments (1835)
Baines, Edward, Sir, 1800-1890 · London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson · leaf 72
ugh it was constructed with greater firm-ness, neatness, and compactness. In Montfaucons Antiquity Explained! there are two figures of fe-males weaving in a standing posture; they are takenfrom the illuminations of books, which the learned anti-quarian pronounces to be of the date of the fourth or… … The loom used in this country at the beginning of theeighteenth century was a more perfect machine, butupon the same principle as the ancient loom; a prnicipleof admirable ingenuity, yet susceptible, as has of latebeen practically shewn, of very great improvement, espe-cially in respect to the…
Cotton manufacture
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