Shawls
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A mid-19th-century magazine article, reprinted in Living Age from Household Words, on the shawl trade and its manufacture. It opens with Bokhara camel-hair shawls, the Eastern shawl tradition, and the universal demand for shawls, then describes the three kinds made at Paisley: woven Asiatic-pattern shawls, tartan shawls and printed shawls. It covers pattern design and painting on point paper, Jacquard and 'lashing' weaving, the 'flowers' of harness cords, cutting, singeing, darning and fringing, the fringe-twisting machine, and block-printing and steaming of printed shawls.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- c. 1850-1853
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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