Die Wollarbeiter [The Wool Workers; Workshop of the Present-Day Arts, or the New History of the Arts, The Sixteenth Treatise]; Werkstätte der heutigen Künste oder die neue Kunsthistorie, Die sechzehnte Abhandlung
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The sixteenth treatise (pp. 153-238 of vol. 2) of Johann Samuel Halle's 'Werkstätte der heutigen Künste', 1762, on wool trades. It opens with sheep and wool grades, then covers the cloth weaver (sorting, washing, carding, spinning, weaving, fulling, shearing, pressing), the weavers of serge, etamine and figured woolens, the stocking weaver, hatter, tapestry weaver, button maker, dyeing (woad, indigo, kermes, cochineal, madder, color mixing, fastness tests), the ribbon and braid weaver (Bortenwirker) with gold thread, and the tailor. The book has an engraved frontispiece and a plate of wool-working tools; it has no weaving drafts.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1762
- Language
- German
- Pages
- 87
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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