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 : John Niven ; New York : D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 29
he 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 of… … 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 Manufacture, from Montfoucons AntiquityExplained. It is a representation of European weaving as itmay be supposed to have…
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