Turner, Annabell · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 17
the end of the fifteenth,^ or beginning ofthe sixteenth, century a one thread machine wasinvented which enabled the spinner^to produceseven times more yam than by the distaff andspindle. Gradually improvements and new in-ventions followed, so that today most of thespinning has been taken from… … Throwing the SHtrrrLE through the Warp Shed btHand COTTON 5 evenness of weave is found in old Egyptiantombs, and the early Greeks and Eomans pro-duced woolen fabrics of great beauty and firm-ness. Manufacture of both, wool and flax ex-isted in Greece in the days of Homer. The early Egyptian loom…
Textile fabrics · Clothing and dress · Textile industry
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