A practical treatise on weaving by hand and power looms; intended as a text book for manufacturers by hand and power looms, and power loom engineers .. (1846)
White, George · Glasgow, J. Niven · leaf 29
rp with the weft by picking upeach individual thread with some instrument, suchas a needle, on which the weft may be wound, asrepresented in Fig. 1st, is darning, which is merelyweaving in its first stage, and is the state in whichweaving exists among all barbarous nations. 2. Any art in this state… … Fig. 1. Loom of the Middle Ages. The figure introduced above as illustrative of weaving bydarning, is taken from a copy as presented by Mr Baines in hisHistory of the Cotton ^lanufacture, from Montfoucons AntiquityExplained. It is a representation of European weaving as itmay be supposed to have…
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