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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. HAND-KNITTING. A Question of much interest presents itself on entering upon the events that transpired in the sixteenth century, and which is directly connected with the manufacture of hosiery by machinery. It is inquired, at what time, where, and by whom, was the art of elastic loop hand-knitting first practised ? No positive answer can be given on any of these points. It has been seen that no rival machine was devised for performing textile operations. But the mind would be ever engaged in selecting natural productions to serve as materials; and in searching out useful processes and inventions, in which they might be employed by well directed skill and labour. The brain and fingers of men are scarcely ever at rest. They will twist and intertwine; double and redouble cordage; loop, plait, knot, and knit, in ways almost infinitely various. In like manner, under man's plastic management, silk and flax and wool acquire superior fineness, strength, and brightness; and have thus become better prepared for textile use. Sinewy arms and dexterous hands arc in fact the natural machinery by which he operates often very beautifully and effectively, without any adventitious mechanical aid whatever. Thus observing the peculiar qualities of the various objects around, his mind suggests uses for them; and seeing what is to be done, at length finds out the way to do it. By this tentative course, river flags were formed into baskets; reeds, and the inner bark of trees were changed into paper; the outer rind into ropes; bullrushes were interlaced and made into an ark, which, plastered with bitumen, might safely glide down the stream; and wattled twigs of the willow, shaped boat fashion, perhaps after the great ship of the Deluge, and being covered with skins, were found suf...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459011922
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 214
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459011929
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 390 gr


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