The textile industries : a practical guide to fibres, yarns & fabrics in every branch of textile manufacture, including preparation of fibres, spinning, doubling, designing, weaving, bleaching, printing, dyeing and finishing (1910)
Murphy, William S · London : The Gresham Publishing Company · leaf 54
nd venturesome travelling merchants, the accidents ofmigration and conquest, like the invasion of India by Alexander orthe conquest of Spain by the Moors, have acted as spring currentsin the main stream of development, adding the stimulus of humanpassion to the force of economic tendency.… … ORNAMENTAL COLOURED DRAPERY(Warner & Sons, Newgate Street, London) THE PREPARATION OF SILK 31 Of these legends Gibbon presents us with a fine specimen, takenfrom Procopius. According to the historian, in the year 551 a.d. twoPersian monks of the Nestorian order came to Constantinople fromChina,…
Textile industry · Textile fabrics
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