John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 154
an apprentice of the stocking-loom inventor. More fortunate than his master, he enlisted the Court inhis favour (for the Stuarts were more enlightened patrons of industrial enterprise than the Tudors),and established productive gtocking-loom manufactories at Nottingham and Leicester. For more… … THE ORPHAN BIRD. FROM A PAINTING BY BURNET. than a century very few alterations were made in the machine ; but the late Mr. Jedediah Struttat length contrived, by means of an improvement which he introduced into the original stocking-loom,to manufacture ribbed-hose. 142 JOHN CASSELLS ART TREASURES…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
