The past in the present: what is civilisation? (1880)
Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-1909 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 34
give to a busy worker with a spindlea sort of prehistoric look. One such woman I well remember.She lived in a dreary solitude, far up the Glenkens of Gal-loway ; and as she span, she crooned to a forgotten air analmost forgotten verse of the old ballad of The silly blindHarper of Lochmaben Toon. I… … Fig. 14.—Old Scottish Loom found in Mid-Calder by the Rev. George Murray.The weft is driven home by the spatha. The shift in the warp is very in-geniously and simply effected. The web was narrow, and the weft was struck home with apiece of wood, in shape like a paper-cutter or table-knife. 1 When…
Archaeology · Civilization
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