The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed (1912)
Walton, Perry, 1865-1941 · Boston, Mass., J. S. Lawrence · leaf 32
laid inlayers upon a smooth surface, such as the prostrate trunkof a cocoanut-tree, and were beaten with a kind of heavymallet, made of ebony, in shape somewhat like an old-fashioned razor-strop. Upon the surface of the hammerwere shallow parallel indentations, which varied in depthon different… … THE STORY OF TEXTILES 21 after layer was put on until the whole was merged into onemass. The beating then continued, water from time totime being added, until the material reached the requiredthinness, according to the purpose for which it was to beused. It was then placed on the grass to bleach,…
Textile industry
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