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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. 137. LOOM 500 YEARS B. C, SHOWING BEAM, WITH THREADS HANGINGOPEN—FROM A GREEK VASE—PENELOPE. houses, is more wretched than a woman ; his knees are at theplace of his heart; he has not tasted the air. Should he have CLOTHES, ETC. 367 done but a little in a day, of his weaving, he is dragged as a lilyin a pool. He gives bread to the porter at the door that he maybe allowed to see the light. This poem may be 5,000 years old. How did the Loom evolve ? The frame first held only the warp, which possibly hung be-tween two trees. Then it was placed vertically before the weaveron a frame, and the Turks still prefer to make their often beau-tiful and always valuable and durable woolen fabrics in thismanner. A Turkish weaver stitching with needlefuls of his rflUHKfli,
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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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