Labor-saving looms : a brief treatise on plain weaving and the recent improvements in that line, with special reference to the Northrop looms manufactured by Draper Company, Hopedale, Mass., U.S.A (1905)
Draper, George Otis, 1867-1923, Draper Company · [Hopedale, Mass. : Draper Company] · leaf 15
ts progress.It is fairly well established to-day that woven goods were usedas clothing by the ancient Egyptians fully 6000 years ago. Ihave seen in Switzerland a preserved section of a net woven of twisted threads supposed to havebeen the work of the Lake dwellersin pre-historic times. In the… … l3 to-day in producing rugs in the Orient with short wefts. Withthe use of longer weft also came the use of a stick with ahooked end for pulling it into position. If we are to form ourfurther comparisons on a plain print cloth of the present width of28 inches containing 64 threads of warp and 64 of…
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