Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Weaving and Designing of Textile Fabrics: With Chapters on the Principles of Construction of the Loom, Calculations and Colour
Chinese that they can trace back documentarily the use Of Silk fabrics as far as the twenty-sixth century before... Læs mere our era. With the Egyptians linen has long been in use, and at a very early period of their history they spun and wove it SO extremely fine that their fabrics have been the wonder and admiration of succeeding ages. Wool was the material used in some other countries, notably in Asia; and the Hindoos worked in cotton, as well as wool and goats' hair.
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