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 33
otions of weaving are to be performed, or tothe instruments for effecting the motions. 6. This method of shedding the web was in useamong all the semi-barbarous nations of antiquity,before any record was preserved of their transact-ions; and when, or where, this great improvementwas first invented,… … Fig. 4. Lateral Section of the Old Hand Loom. oldest writers. Indeed, it is rather from incidentalnotices of the subject, and representations of theArts in old prints and hieroglyphics, that we havesome distinct notion of the state of weaving amongthe ancients. 7« Fig. 5th is a representation of an…
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