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Crafts: Hand-Made Rugs and Fabrics
Crafts: Hand-Made Rugs and Fabrics
Article · 5 pages
A five-page "Crafts" column from Current Literature (1901) that reprints several short pieces on hand-made textiles. They cover hand-tufted Turkish-style carpets made by Donegal girls at Killybegs, Ireland; Filipino fibre fabrics (pineapple "jusi", coconut, hemp); a Maine rug-making venture at Centre Lovell, with spinning, warping, hand-weaving, hooked pile and plant dyeing; and Scottish Highland homespun, including distaff-and-spindle spinning, plant dyes and communal waulking. The pieces are descriptive and economic, with no weaving drafts.
Making Lace by Machinery
Making Lace by Machinery
Article · 1 page
A short 1894 magazine article, reprinted from The Brooklyn Eagle, describing how silk lace is made on machines. It follows the silk from imported raw skeins through throwing, boiling, spooling, warping and beaming, then the threading of the machine, Jacquard card punching, inspection, dyeing and finishing. It closes with a note that silk gloves are made in much the same way, but on plain cloth.

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