. The textile manufactures of the ancients : embracing the history of silk, linen, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances : deduced from Yate's [sic] Textrinum antiquorum, and other authentic sources . Felt. There seems no reason to question the correctness of Pro-fessor Beckmanns observation*, that the making of felt was in-vented before weavingf. The middle and northern regions ofAsia are occupied by Tartars and other populous nations, whosemanners and customs appear to have continued unchangedfrom the most remote antiquity!, and to whose simple and uni-form mode of existence this articl
. The textile manufactures of the ancients : embracing the history of silk, linen, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances : deduced from Yate's [sic] Textrinum antiquorum, and other authentic sources . Felt. There seems no reason to question the correctness of Pro-fessor Beckmanns observation*, that the making of felt was in-vented before weavingf. The middle and northern regions ofAsia are occupied by Tartars and other populous nations, whosemanners and customs appear to have continued unchangedfrom the most remote antiquity!, and to whose simple and uni-form mode of existence this article seems to be as necessary asfood. Felt is the principal substance both of their clothing andof their habitations. Carpini, who in the year 1246 went asambassador to the great Khan of the Moguls, Mongals, orTartars, says, Their houses are round, and artificially madelike tents, of rods and twigs interwoven, having a round holein the middle of the roof for the admission of light and the pas-sage of smoke, the whole being covered with felt) of which * Anleitung zur Technologies p. 117, Note. t See Gilroys Treatise on the Art of Weaving, p. 14. t Malcolms Hist, of Persia, ch. vi. vol. i. pp. 123, Hate Jffl.
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