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 64
teresting because it shows that veryearly the American natives, particularly those of the South,not only raised cotton, but wove it into fabrics and garmentsof various kinds. Balls of native cotton spun on distaffsby natives of Guiana, South America, and similar to thosespoken of by Columbus, are… … FABRICS WOVEN BY THE BAKUBA TRIBE, AFRICA (From the Boston Museum of Fine Arts) Specimens of fabrics woven by the Bakuba tribe of the Congo Riversection. Both show no evidence of contact with civihzation. The pinkgrass cloth is of a plain weave. The black and white design, also of grass,has a pile…
Textile industry
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