The Art of Weaving, by Hand and by Power: With an Introductory Account of Its Rise and Progress in Ancient and Modern Times, for the Use of Manufacturers and OthersG.D. Baldwin, 1844 - 574 páginas |
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... called harness boards ) which are often made stationary ; but at other times one , or more are elevated or depressed , at every 2d , 3d , 4th , or 6th , passage of the shuttle . In weaving Marseilles quilting and petticoat robes , on ...
... called harness boards ) which are often made stationary ; but at other times one , or more are elevated or depressed , at every 2d , 3d , 4th , or 6th , passage of the shuttle . In weaving Marseilles quilting and petticoat robes , on ...
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... called , are first mentioned as an article of commerce in Arrian's Periplus of the Erythrean sea . He in- forms us that they were imported from India to Aduli , a port on the Red Sea , and he specifies as the principal marts of ...
... called , are first mentioned as an article of commerce in Arrian's Periplus of the Erythrean sea . He in- forms us that they were imported from India to Aduli , a port on the Red Sea , and he specifies as the principal marts of ...
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... called from their being woven at El Mosel in Mesopotamia - like the Eng- lish " cambrics , " were not composed of cotton , at least not exclu- sively , for the muslins mentioned by Marco Polo are expressively stated to have been woven ...
... called from their being woven at El Mosel in Mesopotamia - like the Eng- lish " cambrics , " were not composed of cotton , at least not exclu- sively , for the muslins mentioned by Marco Polo are expressively stated to have been woven ...
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... called upon to apply ; the weak and delicate frame of the Hindoo , moreover , is accompanied with an acuteness of external sense , particularly of touch , which is altogether unrivalled , and the flexibility of his fingers is equally ...
... called upon to apply ; the weak and delicate frame of the Hindoo , moreover , is accompanied with an acuteness of external sense , particularly of touch , which is altogether unrivalled , and the flexibility of his fingers is equally ...
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... called at the widow's cottage to enquire the way . He was greatly struck with the girl's beauty and not less with the numerous hanks of yarn which lay upon the floor of the cottage , and equally attested her skill and industry . He ...
... called at the widow's cottage to enquire the way . He was greatly struck with the girl's beauty and not less with the numerous hanks of yarn which lay upon the floor of the cottage , and equally attested her skill and industry . He ...
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arrangement attached axis barrel bead lams bobbins breadth breast beam cam shaft cards carpet carriage Cashmere centre cloth roller colours comb connected crank cross cylinder damask dents design paper double cloth draw loom embroidery fabric fastened figure fixed frame France front gauze groove harness board holes horizontal improvements invention Jacquard Jacquard loom knot lace lash leaf leaves of headles length lever long march machine machinery manufacture means motion mounting needles operation pantograph party-coloured passes patent pattern picks per inch piece pincers pinion placed plain plain weaving plate power loom produced pulley purpose raised ratchet wheel reed round screw selvage shawls shed shown in Fig side silk slides Spitalfields spring stripes stud-pin suitable tail cord tappet teeth texture thread breaks tion treadles turned tweel twine upper warp threads weaver weft thread weight wire woven yarn beam
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Página 60 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours.
Página 44 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, And cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Página 47 - The King's daughter is all glorious within ; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework : the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Página 45 - Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the engraver. And of the cunning workman and of the embroiderer, in blue and in purple, in scarlet and in fine linen and of the weaver, even of them that do any work and of those that devise cunning work.
Página 50 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Página 49 - So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
Página 50 - The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke. and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Página 50 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them...
Página 50 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Página 44 - And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.