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Identifier: firesideuniversi01mcgo (find matches)
Title: The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: McGovern, John. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Chicago, Union pub. house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. my2. TURKISH WOMEN WEAVING RUGS. various woofs on a frame of ivarp, has long been a familiarspectacle, furnishing an instructive method of advertising in thecity store windows of America. Mention an ancient reference to Weaving. In the Book of Job: My days are swifter than a weaversshuttle—chapter 7, verse 6. This is the Protestant version.The Catholic version reads, probably with more accuracy : My 368 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by theweaver. The Desert of Gobi or Jobi, and the Lake of Lob inTurkestanese Asia, are possibly connected with Job. We mayattribute almost the highest antiquity to the Book of Job. How recently did the Loom leave the houses of the people andretire to the factories ? Many of our fathers and all our grandfathers can recall thetime when every hamlet, however small, possessed at least one
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Fig. 138. LOOM OF AN EAST INDIAN, STILL IN USB. loom, where rag carpet was woven. But, since 1840, the Clothsused by the people have usually been made far from home, andall wise, industrious and frugal inhabitants have found life muchmore easy and comfortable. For what inventions in Cloth-Making were the Eighteenthand Nineteenth Centuries famous ? In 1745, John Kay invented the fly shuttle, whereby, when thewarp was spread apart into the shed, the shuttle shot across,leaving a trail of woof behind. In Napoleons time, Jacquardinvented his wonderful cards, whereby a loom could work on abeautiful pattern as rapidly as on plain Cloth. I

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