Rock, Daniel, 1799-1871, Great Britain. Education Dept · New York : Published for the Committee of Council on Education by Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong · leaf 24
tenth century, those processes had reached from thefar east to the uttermost western hmits of that sea. Even then,and a long time after, the natural history of the silkworm becameknown but to a very few. Our countryman Alexander Neckham,abbot of Cirencester a.d. 1213, was probably the first who… … Indian woman reeling silk from a wheel. CHAPTER III. Of the several raw materials which from the earliest periods havebeen employed in weaving, though not in such frequency as silk,one is gold: which, when judiciously brought in, adds not abarbaric but artistical richness. , The earliest written…
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