 | British periodicals - 1821 - 690 pages
...The second envelope of the mummies is a kind of net work, of coarse threads, formed of very •mall loose meshes, in which were fixed the feathers of various kinds of birds, so a* to make a perfectly smooth surface, lying all in onedirection. The art of this tedious but beautiful... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 536 pages
...bagging. It was evidently woven by the same kind of process, which is still practised in the interior part of Africa. The warp being extended by some slight...northwest coast of America, and in the islands of the Pacific Ocean. In those isles it is the state or court dress. The third and outer envelope of these... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 542 pages
...rtlde. method of weaving in Asia, Africa, and America. The second envelope of the mummies is a kind ot net work, of coarse threads, formed of very small...northwest coast of America, and in the islands of the Pacific Ocean. In those isles it is the state or court dress. The third and outer envelope of these... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...of weaving in Asia, Africa, and America. The second envelope of the mummies is a kind of net-work, of coarse threads, formed of very small loose meshes,...understood in Mexico, and still exists on the north-west ?oast of America, and in the islands of the Pacific Ocean. In those itles it is the state or court... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 502 pages
...of weaving in Asia, Africa, and America. The second envelope of the mummies is a kind of net-work, of coarse threads, formed of very small loose meshes,...north-west coast of America, and in the islands of the Pacific Ocean. In those isles it is the state or court dress. The third and outer envelope of these... | |
 | Josiah Priest - America - 1833 - 418 pages
...them by various means, as we have, in some measure recounted, heretofore. A second envelope of these mummies, is a kind of net work, of coarse threads,...northwest coast of America, and in the islands of the Pacific. In these islands it is the state or court dress. The third and outer envelope of these mummies,... | |
 | Josiah Priest - America - 1834 - 412 pages
...have been the first rude method of weaving in Asia, Africa and America. A second envelope of these mummies, is a kind of net work, of coarse threads,...surface, lying all in one direction. The art of this manufacture was well understood in Mexico, and still exists in the northwest coast of America, and... | |
 | Josiah Priest - 1835 - 416 pages
...have been the first rude method of weaving in Asia, Africa and America. A second envelope of these mummies, is a kind of net work, of coarse threads,...surface, lying all in one direction. The art of this manufacure was well understood in Mexico, and still exists in the northwest coast of America, and in... | |
 | John D. Clifford, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque - America - 2000 - 220 pages
...before those countries became celebrated for "trading in fine linen." The second envelope of some of our mummies is a kind of net work of coarse threads, formed...meshes, in which were fixed the feathers of various birds, so as to make a completely smooth surface, lying in one direction. The art of this tedious though... | |
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The warp being extended by some slight kind of machinery, the woof was passed across it, and then twisted every two threads of the warp together, before the second passage of the filling. This seems to have been the first rude method of weaving in Asia,... 