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A short excerpt from Montfaucon's Antiquity Explained discussing what surviving ancient monuments and manuscripts reveal about weavers and their craft. It describes figures of women spinning, dressing cloth, and weavers standing at the loom, citing the Vatican Virgil (4th century) and a 10th-century commentary on Job in the King's Library. A engraved plate shows classical-style figures handling cloth and a loom.