Weaving Among Lake-Dwellers
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A short note from the Editor's Scientific Record summarizing a paper by Dr. Weigert on spinning and weaving remains from the Swiss pile dwellings. It reports that flax was widely grown and made into thread, rope, plaited mats and other fabrics even in the Stone Age, and that stone and clay spindle whorls are common finds. Weigert concludes the lake-dwellers used a vertical-warp loom, as the Greco-Italian peoples did, unlike the horizontal loom of India and Egypt, and argues from this that European culture developed independently.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- c. 1860-1880
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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