The history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and other fibrous substances; (1845)
[Gilroy, Clinton G] [from old catalog] · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 208
ped of the flakes of soot adhering tothem; but in the greater number, finding that she could notget them sufficiently clean, she broke them quite off, bundledthem up, and tossed them over. We counted five of thesepackets of rubbish which she thus threw away, though theremust have been many more, as… … Spiders, Willi the processes of Spuming1 and We; SILKEN MATERIAL OP THE SPIDER. 173 light. When she had cleared off all the sooted lines, she beganto replace them in the usual way; but the arrival of the boatat Mentz put an end to our observations. Bloomfield, thepoet, having observed the…
Textile fabrics · History, Ancient
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