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Left, an attendant carrying a diya (small lamp); right, a man weaving (?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 583142iPart of: Trades and occupations in India- Books
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Navajo weaving : three centuries of change / Kate Peck Kent ; with a catalogue of the School of American Research collection.
Kent, Kate PeckDate: 2002, ©1985- Books
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The religious weaver: or, pious meditations on the trade of weaving. viz. Its honourable antiquity. Its distinguishing advantages. The raw or rough materials; -preparing them; -putting them into the loom; The weaver at work in his loom; -finishing his piece; -receiving his wages; The peculiar success of some weavers. A wish for the trade's general prosperity. By Benjamin Fawcett, M.A.
Fawcett, Benjamin, 1715-1780.Date: [1773]- Books
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The weavers pocket-book or, weaving spiritualized. In a discourse, Wherein Men employed in that Occupation, are instructed how to raise Heavenly Meditations, from the several Parts of their Work. To which also are added some few moral and spiritual observations ; relating both to That and other Trades. By John Collins. D.D.
Collinges, John, 1623-1690.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
Florence Nightingale's 1893 "sick-nursing and health-nursing" : weaving a tapestry of positive health determinants for personal, community and global wellness / by Deva-Marie Beck.
Beck, Deva-Marie.Date: 2001- Pictures
Princess Erminia of Antioch abandons her armour at the house of a basket-weaving shepherd. Etching by H.T.J. Bislinger, 1781, after P. Berrettini da Cortona.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.Date: [1781]Reference: 2803407iPart of: Nouvelle collection d'estampes contenant cinquante pièces en eau forte- Books
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An account of Mr. James-Christopher Le Blon's principles of printing, in imitation of painting, and of weaving tapestry, in the same manner as brocades / [Cromwell Mortimer].
Mortimer, Cromwell, -1752Date: [1731]- Books
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The religious weaver: Or, Pious meditations on the trade of weaving. Viz. Its honourable antiquity. Its distinguishing advantages. The raw or rough materials; -preparing them; -putting them into the loom; the weaver at work in his loom; -finishing his piece; -receiving his wages; the peculiar success of some weavers. A wish for the trade's general prosoperity. By Benjamin Fawcett, M.A.
Fawcett, Benjamin, 1715-1780.Date: 1773- Books
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The weaver's index. Or, A table shewing how much yarn it will take to warp and web. To which is subjoined, some caaming tables, and a table shewing when a spynle of yarn is so much English weight, how much yarn a pound either English or Scots is. Together with, the art of weaving, by the sliding rule.
Diston, D.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Mathematical sleaing tables: or, the great and only mystery of weaving linen cloth explained. By which the most ignorant Weaver is infallibly directed how to adjust the Reed to the Yarn: And The Buyer truly shewn whether the Cloth be wrought to its due Perfection. Taken from Geometrical Proportions, and fitted to the meanest Capacity. Published by the special order of the Honourable the House of Commons, and by order of the Honourable trustees for the improvement of the linen manufacture in this kingdom. By Joseph Beaumont, Merchant.
Beaumont, Joseph.Date: 1754- Books
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An heroick poem on the weaving trade setting forth 'its antiquity and use, humbly inscribed to, 'its great patron Doctor Swift Dean of St Patrick's, whom God preserve long for the good of the Irish nation. By Miles Aston[.]
Aston, Miles.Date: [1734?]- Books
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Mathematical sleaing-tables: Or, The great and only mistery of weaving linnen-cloth explain'd. By which the most ignorant weaver is infallibly directed how to adjust the reed to the yarn: and the buyer truly shewn whether the cloth be wrought to its due perfection. Taken from geometrical proportions, and fitted to the meanest capacity. Published by the special order of the Honourable the House of Commons, and by order of the Honourable trustees for the improvement of the linnen manufacture in this Kingdom. To which is added, an abstract of all the statutes now in force, relating to the linnen manufacture. By Joseph Beaumount, merchant.
Beaumont, Joseph.Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- Pictures
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Textiles: a version of Crompton's mule. Engraving by J. W. Lowry, 1834, after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Date: 1834Reference: 43522i- Books
Report to the Home Office and to the Local Government Board upon an inquiry into the alleged danger of the transmission of certain diseases from person to person in weaving sheds by means of "shuttle-kissing" / by Gerald Bellhouse, W.W.E. Fletcher, and D.J. Shackleton.
Bellhouse, Gerald, Sir, 1867-Date: 1912- Pictures
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Two men working at looms with an overseer carrying a large stick watching over them. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 31346i- Books
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Pastoral life and manufactures of the ancients ; embracing the history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, etc. including observations on spinning, dyeing and weaving ... With appendices. On Pliny's natural history, on the origin and manufacture of linen and cotton paper, on felting, netting, etc / By Clinton G. Gilroy.
Gilroy, Clinton G.Date: 1845- Pictures
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Textiles: five scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.
Date: 1750Reference: 44127i- Books
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Mark Gregory, at the Raven and Sun in Drury-Lane, sells several sorts of haberdashery ware, viz. canvass, buckram, whalebone, perriwig-ribbon, raw and dyed silks, cauls and weaving thread, and all sorts of fine gilders and coloured threads, crapes and scotch muslin, quality-bindings, boot-strapping and gallows; ...
Gregory, Mark, active 18th century.Date: 1760?]- Books
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Studies in primitive looms / by H. Ling Roth.
Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925.Date: [1934]- Books
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The weavers pocket-book: or, weaving spiritualized. In a discourse, Wherein Men employed in that Occupation, are instructed how to raise Heavenly Meditations, from the several Parts of their Work. To which also are added some few moral and spiritual observations, relating both to That and other Trades. By J. C. D.D.
Collinges, John, 1623-1690.Date: [1723]- Books
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Universal beneficence. A sermon preached in the Parish-Church of St. Luke, Dublin. On Sunday the nineteenth day of March, 1720/21. Upon occasion of making collections for the relief of the poor manufacturers belonging to the weaving trade. By Edward, lord archbishop of Tuam. Published at the request of the corporation of weavers.
Synge, Edward, 1659-1741.Date: 1721- Pictures
Textiles: a petition presented on behalf of the descendants of John Kay, for a pension. Coloured lithograph by Nosworthy and Wells after Cardwell, with letterpress, 1846.
Cardwell.Date: 28 October 1846Reference: 46142i- Pictures
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Textiles: two types of hand loom, and details of the shuttle. Engraving by T. Jefferys.
Reference: 43864i- Pictures
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A weaver working on a treadle-operated loom as a woman brings him more thread. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34965i- Pictures
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Textiles: gauze making loom, and details. Engraving by R. Benard.
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