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Peruvian fabrics (1916)

Crawford, M. D. C. (Morris De Camp), 1882-1949 · New York : Published by order of The Trustees [of the American Museum of Natural History] · leaf 60

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anextent the ingenuity of these people had developed along textile lines, thancould a volume of mere assertion. From the fact that the belt-like pieces,although few in number and selected in a haphazard manner, still show twodistinct methods of attaching the knots, and from the evident ease… … Fig. 30. Pile Knot, a, the basic fabric, a single yarn knotted on itself; h. the pileknot caught in the knots of a. In the fabric the loops are much smaller in relation to theknots, than in the illustration. The knots are hair and wool and the cord is a two-ply closelytwisted cotton.

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