Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . the conquest by Ctesar, whostates that the art of wearing was not known bythe islanders. However this may be, an imperialmanufactory of woolen and linen cloth for the useof the Komau army in Britain was established atVenta Bulgarum, since called Winchester. In Bish-op Aldhelms book, A. P. 6S0, in an essay on char-acter, occui3 a simile from the art of figure-wea
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . the conquest by Ctesar, whostates that the art of wearing was not known bythe islanders. However this may be, an imperialmanufactory of woolen and linen cloth for the useof the Komau army in Britain was established atVenta Bulgarum, since called Winchester. In Bish-op Aldhelms book, A. P. 6S0, in an essay on char-acter, occui3 a simile from the art of figure-weaving,in which he refers to a web woven by shuttles,tilled with threads of purple and many other colors,flying from side to side, and forming a variety offigures and images. A famous specimen of em-broidery of this character is preserved in the Cathe-dral of Bayeaux. It is a piece of linen alwut 19inches in width and 67 yards iii length, containingthe history of the conipiest of England by Williamof Normandy. It is supposed to have been executedby ^Matilda, wife of William, and the ladies of hercourt. Its beauty is principally needlework. The annexed cut is from Erasmuss book, the Praise of Folly, and shows the lady of the house. A Ladye at her Loom. at her loom. The cloth-beam, shuttle, and harnessare clearly shown. ^Vh::t need we name the pev^ral kinds of looms?Tho^ delicate, to who^e f;iir-colourd threjidsHanj fiiurd wei^rhts, various numbers guideThe artists band : he. unseen flowrs. and trees,And Tales, and azure hills, unerring works Dteb, T/it Fhtct, 1757. Toward the close of the eleventh century, theweavers in the large towns of England were foimedinto guilds or societies. In the reign of Richard I. (1197) a law was passedfor regulating the fabiication and sale of cloth. Edward 111. encouraged the immigration of weav-ers and cloth-makers, but the art does not seem tohave flourished in England as it did on the Conti-nent, as wool continued to be a staple article of
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