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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: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ht 80 Samuel 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 130 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 of 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 tlirown 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 OF 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 ef

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