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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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s been tripled.This makes a beautiful cord, much like Silk, and chemically notgreatly at variance with Silk. We are now back to the Looms. Is not our cheap Lace woven07t the Loom ? Yes. On a loom. The bobbin-net or Nottingham lace was in-vented in England, and had no prototype in India. The lace loomas first operated at Nottingham, England and Calais, France,bears but little resemblance to our old-time looms. The beamor cylinder that holds the web of finished lace is above the reed,and both the warp and woof threads are fastened to it at thebeginning. The woof threads swing like a pendulum. TheJacquard cards are used to give the pattern on the lace. Whenlace was first woven by the knitting process, and the gimp-threadworked patterns on top of the net, the gimp-thread jumped fromone pattern to another, leaving a trail of gimp-thread. This wascut away by children. Lace which answers every purpose ofdecoration is made on the machines at less tho.n one-twentieth 388 THE FIRESIDE UMVEKSITY
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150. A LACK MAKER AT WORK. CLOTHES, ETC. 389 of the very low prices paid for pillow-lace. Of course, thequality of the material may be the same. Has Loom-Making prospered in America ? Yes. At the Worlds Fair the exhibits were very fine. Rib*bons were made in solid colors ; twelve Jacquard looms were runwith one set of cards. Looms were run with paper cards, ironroller cards and iron bar and peg cards. A loom company atWorcester, Mass., manufactures power looms for worsted, wool-ens, dress goods, flannels, blankets, jeans, ginghams, upholstery,draperies, shawls, jute carpets, ingrain carpets, silks, velvets,satins, burlap, jute bags, ribbons, suspenders, bindings, etc. Abranch of this house at Dobcross, Eng., has made over tenthousand looms for foreign use. What are the chief uses of Cotton Cloth ? For the underwear and bedding of the people. In temperateclimates, the outer summer-wear of the women is chiefly wovenof Cotton warp and woof. The white shirts of the Caucasian raceare nearl

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