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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 91

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him.! The following is a representation of the Hindooweaver and his loom:— * The shuttle is not always of this length. Hoole, in his Mission to India,represents it as requiring to be thrown, in which case it must be short; and adrawing of a Candyan weaver, in the Magazine of the Society for the… … Forbes describes the weavers in Guzerat, nearBaroche, as fixing their looms at sun-rise under the shade of tamarind and mango trees. In some partsof India, however, as on the banks of the Ganges, theweavers work under the cover of their sheds, fixingthe geer of their looms to a bamboo in the roof.…

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