Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . gland was the influx of refugees from the Nether-lands, who were driven from home by the religious persecutors of the Dukeof Alod. It is highly probable that the draw loom for damask weavingwas introduced into England by them. At any rate they greatly benefitedthe communities in which they settled by their superior knowledge of thecraft, and James I gave encouragement and protection to suc
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . gland was the influx of refugees from the Nether-lands, who were driven from home by the religious persecutors of the Dukeof Alod. It is highly probable that the draw loom for damask weavingwas introduced into England by them. At any rate they greatly benefitedthe communities in which they settled by their superior knowledge of thecraft, and James I gave encouragement and protection to such of themas suffered from the jealousy and animosity of the English weavers. In1753 great perfection was attained in the weaving of wrought velvets,branched satins and other kinds of curious silk stufifs, and bombazines werefirst made in Norwich. The following looms v^ere exhibited in a pageantwhich passed before Queen Elizabeth, at Norwich, in 1578: Looms forworsteds, for russets, for darnix, for mockads, for lace, for cafTa and forfringe; and the art of weaving sailcloth for the navy was introduced inthe following year. In, 1642 a curious pamphlet mentions the fact that cotton fustians. bo g Eh<. coo in E-? O nt OF THE UNITED STATES 127 vermilions, dymities and other such stufifs were woven in Manchester. In1676 the Dutch engine loom was introduced into London from 1678 M. de Gennes presented his model of a machine for making woolencFoths without the aid of a workman to the Royal Academy. In 1685 theRevocation of the Edict of Nantes sent 75,000 French refugees to England,many of whom were silk weavers who settled in Spitalfields, where velvetweaving was introduced in 1686. It is not necessary that we should in this article give a technical dis-sertation on the art of weaving as practised in modern times; we have notthe space to do justice to so weighty a subject, nor do our readers requiresuch information; but in order to properly set forth the gradual evoluti
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