Scientific sewing and garment cutting, for use in schools and in the home; (1898)
Wakeman, Antoinette Prudence (Van Hoesen), Mrs., 1856- [from old catalog], Heller, Louise M., [from old catalog] joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett & company · leaf 154
ysubstituting the mechanical for the manual process, one person couldspin as much as twenty persons could with the spinning wheel. But EIGHTH GRADE WORK. the thread made by the mechanical process, while suitable for weft, wasonly fairly good for warp. It remained for Richard Arkwright to inventa… … Spinning. creels of rovings in the frame, and transferring his spindles to a movingcarriage, produced the spinning mule. Thus, from the crude beginningof spindle and distaff, has developed the time-old art of spinning, whichnow is accomplished with wonderful speed and very little manual…
Sewing · Garment cutting
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