"The Textile Industry" in The Origins of Invention: A Study of Industry Among Primitive Peoples
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Chapter VII of Otis T. Mason's The Origins of Invention (pp. 224-257 of the London/New York 1901 edition) surveys textile arts among so-called primitive peoples. It covers bark cloth and tapa, woven, twined and coiled basketry, matting, spinning and cordage, simple looms and heddles, netting, loopwork, sewing, feather work, embroidery, decoration and dyeing. Examples are drawn from Polynesia, Africa, the Americas and Asia, with illustrations of basketry weaves and a Zuni woman weaving a blanket.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1901
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 36
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