The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . GREEK AND ROMAN METHOD OF SPINNING AND WEAVING (From old woodcuts) THE STORY OF TEXTILES 17 of the sheep or growing of the flax to the spinning of theyarn and weaving of the fabrics. The Bible in Genesis and Exodus refers to the art,Homer, Herodotus, Confucius, and Pliny, all relate tradi-tions of how and when it originated. It is a fact estab-hshed by thousands of hieroglyphics and confirmed by theoldest of Eastern historians that the Chinese, Hindus,Assyrians,
The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . GREEK AND ROMAN METHOD OF SPINNING AND WEAVING (From old woodcuts) THE STORY OF TEXTILES 17 of the sheep or growing of the flax to the spinning of theyarn and weaving of the fabrics. The Bible in Genesis and Exodus refers to the art,Homer, Herodotus, Confucius, and Pliny, all relate tradi-tions of how and when it originated. It is a fact estab-hshed by thousands of hieroglyphics and confirmed by theoldest of Eastern historians that the Chinese, Hindus,Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians, and Hebrewspractised spinning and weaving with great skill at a veryremote period. One Chinese tradition is that silk weaving was practisedin Kiang Nan, China, in 2640 Another is that cottonoriginated in India, and that shawls and carpets werefirst woven in Persia. Fabrics of wonderful excellencewere wrought by the Egyptians certainly twenty-five hun-dred years before Christ, and probably three thousand. Atthis early period the dwellers along the Nile wove linencloth of a fineness that is
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