The Art of Weaving: By Hand and by Power, with an Introductory Account of Its Rise and Progress in Ancient and Modern Times ...Wiley & Putnam, 1845 - 542 pages |
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... France , Belgium , Prussia , & c . , for nearly a quarter of a century . Although the art of weaving the more common fabrics is exten- sively known in this country , nevertheless , the intricate and orna- mental textures are not well ...
... France , Belgium , Prussia , & c . , for nearly a quarter of a century . Although the art of weaving the more common fabrics is exten- sively known in this country , nevertheless , the intricate and orna- mental textures are not well ...
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... France , and Germany , who are engaged in scientific explorations of the country . Their labours will contri- bute greatly to our knowledge of that hitherto unknown region . On the cite of ancient Carthage and in the country adjacent ...
... France , and Germany , who are engaged in scientific explorations of the country . Their labours will contri- bute greatly to our knowledge of that hitherto unknown region . On the cite of ancient Carthage and in the country adjacent ...
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... France , ) otherwise , why should such particular reference be made to the girdles being of needle - work ? No doubt , Bezaleel , an ingenious artizan of the tribe of Judah , invented machinery for embroidering those beautiful fabrics ...
... France , ) otherwise , why should such particular reference be made to the girdles being of needle - work ? No doubt , Bezaleel , an ingenious artizan of the tribe of Judah , invented machinery for embroidering those beautiful fabrics ...
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... France first establishes a silk manufacture . 1533 , Hemp and flax ordered by statute to be sown in England . 1537 , Halifax , in Yorkshire , commences the woollen manufacture . 1549 , King Edward 6th encourages foreign protestants to ...
... France first establishes a silk manufacture . 1533 , Hemp and flax ordered by statute to be sown in England . 1537 , Halifax , in Yorkshire , commences the woollen manufacture . 1549 , King Edward 6th encourages foreign protestants to ...
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... France . 1696 , A law passed in England , to prevent the exportation of wool , and to encourage the importation of Irish hemp , flax , linen , thread , butter , and pigs . By this law these articles were admitted duty free ; which ...
... France . 1696 , A law passed in England , to prevent the exportation of wool , and to encourage the importation of Irish hemp , flax , linen , thread , butter , and pigs . By this law these articles were admitted duty free ; which ...
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Page 295 - A wreath, that cannot fade, of flowers, that blow With most success when all besides decay. The poet's or historian's page by one Made vocal for...
Page 20 - Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Page 46 - 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.
Page 45 - Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
Page 295 - Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower...
Page 328 - He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense, and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in...
Page 124 - some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood.
Page 46 - Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts ; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD. 39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.
Page 489 - Secretary to the Board of Trustees for the Encouragement of Manufactures in Scotland ; also...
Page 380 - The wise and active conquer difficulties, By daring to attempt them. Sloth and folly Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard, And make th