The history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and other fibrous substances :
including observations on spinning, dyeing, and weaving : also an account of the pastoral life of the ancients, their social state and attainments in the domestic arts : with appendices on Pliny's Natural history, on the origin and manufacture of linen and cotton paper, on felting, netting, &c., deduced from copious and authentic sources.

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Main Author

Gilroy, Clinton G.

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : Harper & Brothers, 1845.

Subjects

Textile fabrics.

Note

Ascribed to Gilroy in Halkett and Laing.

Physical Description

xxii, 464 p., 10 leaves of plates : ill., 1 col. map ; 23 cm.

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