The Story of Textiles
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A general history of the textile industry by Perry Walton, tracing it from prehistoric spinning and weaving through the ancient world to the establishment of textile manufacture in the United States. It covers the fibers (flax, linen, wool, cotton, silk), the English factory system and the great inventors (Kay, Hargreaves, Arkwright, Crompton, Cartwright, Jacquard, Watt, Whitney), and colonial and post-Revolutionary American industry, including Samuel Slater and the New England mills. Illustrated with portraits, machinery drawings and photographs of Navajo, Egyptian and Asian spinning and weaving; it has an index and errata list.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1925
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 323
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