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The Story of Textiles
Walton, Perry Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. John S. Lawrence 1912 Hard Cover Very Good No Dust Jacket Privately Printed
; 274 pages with index; Possible first edition/first printing; Black & white photographs, plates; Textblock is secure, though with exposure between second front-free endpaper/half-title page; Light exposure between two back-free endpapers; Inside text is free of internal markings; Top of textblock is gilt; Fore-edge rough-trimmed as published; Wheat-colored, cloth boards with title in gold to spine; A very good copy with modest shelf wear including light wear to top-tail of spine; . (A bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning, and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed, presenting leading facts which have marked the progress of the industry up to the firm establishment of the manufacture of textiles on American soil, together with additional facts to provide a comprehensive view of the subject. The brief chapter titles are: Beginning of Textiles, Flax-Linen-Wool-Cotton and Silk, Factory System, Era of Invention, American Industry Before the Revolution, American Industray After the Revolution and Before Slater, Era of Samuel Slater, Era of Lowell-Appleton-Moody-Jackson and Boott, Other Textile Centres, followed by the index and errata. This book deals largely with the development in England and America, as those two countries originated the inventions that brought the industry to its modern-day efficiency, and in them also were the factory systems which so greatly revolutionized social life in England and in America. Additionally, the illustrations help as well, with some of the titles of illustrations being: American Indian Weaving, Greek and Roman Method of Spinning and Weaving, Specimens of North Dakota Grown Russian Seed-Flax/cutting hemp, The Cotton Plant, Japanese Spinning and Weaving, Ancient Egyptians Spinning and Weaving, Hindu Weaver at His Loom, and more.)
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21.20 USD
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