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Title: The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Walton, Perry, 1865-1941
Subjects: Textile industry Textile industry
Publisher: Boston, Mass., J. S. Lawrence
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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el Crompton 84^ Dr. Edmund Cartwright 88 Cartwrights Loom 92 Amos A. Lawrence 96 12 ILLUSTRATIONS Facing Page Eli Whitney 100 Distaff Spinning 106 Handicraft Carding, Roving, and Spinning by the Hand Wheel 112^ Peg Warping 118 Warping 124^ The Loom that preceded the Power Loom ISO Highs Jenny 136^ The Improved Jenny 142^ A Handicraft Weaver at her Loom 148 Arkwrights Original Water Frame with the Specifi-cations ON the Original Patent Papers taken OUT by him on July 15, 1769 154^ The Old Slater Mill, Pawtucket, R. 1 160 Carding, Drawing, and Roving as it was in Samuel Slaters Early Mills 166^ Samuel Slater 172^ Moses Brown 178 Washingtons Visit to the First Cotton Mill at Beverly, Mass., Oct. 30, 1789 184 Francis C. Lowell 190 Nathan Appleton 196 P. T. Jackson 202 A Modern Mule Spinning-room 208^ Samuel Wetherill 214^ Abbott Lawrence 220 Interior View of a Modern Ring Spinning-Mill . . . 226 Amos Lawrence 232 Interior View op a Modern Weave-room 238 Modern Automatic Northrop Looms 244
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WARRIOR OF THE GILBERT ISLANDS, SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN (From an Exhibit in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass.) His armor is woven of cocoanut fibre, and is a protection against thenative weapons which are edged with swords teeth. The mat at his backis a protection against stones thrown at the enemy by the warriors wife,who follows in the rear. This shows a most primitive form of weaving. THESTORY OF TEXTILES CHAPTER I BEGINNING OF TEXTILES PREHISTORIC EVIDENCES OP THE ART—TEXTILE INDUSTRY AMONGTHE ANCIENTS—EARLY EXISTENCE IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMER-ICA—THE wests TEXTILE INDEBTEDNESS TO THE EAST A bit of cloth—whether it be woolen or cotton, linen orsilk—is one of the most interesting evidences of mansclimb from days of savagery to twentieth-century civiliza-tion. As one notes how finely spun and how intricately wovenare the threads and how beautiful often is the design, thewonder grows that a piece of cloth can be so dexterouslyfashioned. And yet, as one reads of the painstaking effstoryoftextilesb00walt

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