A treatise on embroidery, crochet and knitting .. (1899)
Perkins, George C, Ford, Anna Grayson, M. Heminway and Sons Silk Co · New York, M. Heminway & Sons Silk Co. · leaf 4
oks relating to ancient arts and in-dustries gives one many interesting details concerning the spinning, weaving, anddyeing of silken threads. We learn that, two or three centuries ago, the art ofproducing silk fabrics was a secret so closely guarded that its divulgence waspunishable by death or… … Happily, however, the days of which these tales are more or less true havepassed away. We are living in the closing years of the nineteenth century, and inno art has there been greater progress than in that of the silk manufacturer. Thestory of the founding of those world-famous mills at Watertown,…
Embroidery · Crocheting · Knitting · Silk
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