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 138
e on the foregoing, themaking of nets seems to us more primitive than either. Savage tribes,absolutely naked and sheltering in hollows of rocks and trees, havepossessed nets. It is true that net making resembles knitting ratherthan weaving; but the latter owed something to the former, in… … Fig. 221.—Hammock-making in Guiana (after Eugene Andr^e) fishers, made of bone or wood, suggest strongly the form of the modernweaving shuttle. The long threads, composed of twisted fibres, orspun threads, were stretched in a suspended position, or held taut bya loop round the foot of the net…
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