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 and especially designed to forward the extension of machinery to all kinds of plain weaving (1846)
ON WEAVING BY HAND. Loom,* as it now is, and as it was, thirty centuries ago ; from which it is quite apparent, that little or no further improvement of it was made among those nations that were formerly so celebrated for their skill in manufactures, from a period long before our acquaintance with… … Fig. 5. Indian Loom. * Among the many passing notices which are frequently met with in books of travel, and in popular works on the state of weaving in the East Indies, there is none that conveys such a notion of it, as a person practically acquainted with the sub- ject can say what really is the…
Weaving · Looms
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