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384 woman's work in the world's clothing...
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, the to be threads prepared havin for weaving to be taken " , a prepara two tion at a performed timein a by peculiar hand ,
g up , , sit sor t t of face eyed mesh face , by opposi a girl te , t o wi her th passes , and dexterous w t h o arranges t swiftness hus to a and w which oman sets
t defies hem read the y for to loom trace labours her movements a . The workwoman who performed eye this delicate operation informed us that she earned
£ 1 The per next week removal by her skilful is to the labour weaving . roomwhere upwards of
, chiefl twelv y females hundred , who looms go from at work one , to the the attendan other t to s on supp which ly fresh are each
thread as fast as the shuttles are exhausted , , _^ g irl having several looms under that her charge additional . Hanging over is the vast room to ,
some the eye of soon the looms notes deno an ting where pattern apparatus weaving appended is going onfor where the , calico has to be damasked or figuredas for
linings about ther ; two breadthwise , & c inches , the pattern deep like the and is lath pro the s duced of width a Venetian by of mean the s blind cloth of sli , some joined ps of , times card
tosli to sing ge as the m le of an pattern pattern y me as tal nine entirel . , and These hundred are perfora cards brou such g ted are _ht sli in partiall ps Where con being tac y the t perfora in re blank q t uired he ted loom , part t according o form wi of t the h a
hole card p in touches the card the comes me y tal against no effec . a t hole is produced in the metal , but a wherever thread in t
the woof below is caught and lifted up , and thus he figure desired It is is not produced however . intended here to enter into the licomp
nam ca t t ained ed e , no tricacies in twithstanding , honour of the of , all j ts acquard subsequent oriinal loom inventor _" impro ( as it ) vements is still called , b ts eing ac , tha tion yet t
li t han ttle t more he resul can t it roduces traced , in the g general weft-laden , by t shuttles he , mere fly specta ing wi to t r ,
almost inconceivable p rapidi , ty through skeleton webs of thready is woof ext growing ending before inch b them inch , whi in their le the wake perfected finished calico
seen y . of Manches inspecting ter * it a self factory we h a few fel days t saddened before within t the the revalence confines of p
t idi k n ly -looking and uncleanliness faces , among the their females attir , and hei the htened general in most ung
the cases contrary by the , mixture the pleasure of ill-assorted of watching scraps t , of finery work . was Here rat , on t
w exception enhanced orkers , quite , t han no a struck condi t marred onl ti y with on did by of the t p obse erfec num r vin t pp erous and ear g th ev t o en b robu e pp , les earance almost st of heal eculiarl without t h , but he y
fine we were female development ; . There was indeed examp a greater p display
384 Woman's Work In The World's Clothing...
384 woman ' s work in the world ' s clothing .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/24/
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