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158 WOMAN'S WORK ''IN THE WORLD'S CLOTHI...
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t them hem . , and It is studied also on the record make un that til he in the trived third exac year tly t t co py Elizabeth with
mode a accession pair of manufac , t hat t silk t ure s seeming tockings 1 , Queen , eviden the ma tl t t erial o have was , ra presented b ther een t t han poin the t
of novelty on the occasion . They were y brought to her by her silk-woman" tlie use of which title shews that though in the
been later " s made tatutes , respecting femalessome workers share in silk of t no he _Special craft still mention continued had in their hands . This , new lication of it so pleased the
dress-loving Queenthat she app desired henceforth to be supplied and then with s none spread tockings other downwards of but silk , simil were quite ar articles long so rap ; con idl and fined y thoug as in to t royal he fashions presen or at did t least day not _^
available th in noble t at use in wear one , should ma , it of terial was the soon ; but pageants and natural be according commonl presented that knitting ly ap H before p ollingshed lied , when t the o more Queen once inform _generall broug in her us ht y
visit to Norwich in 1579 , " Upon the stage there stood at and one end t the eight ther small as women kni children tting of spinning worsted worsted hose yarn . " ,
The emp a loymen o t , however many , was not destined to be lef yarn t long to 66 small from women that time children broug , " ht for the memorable the course date of another of mechanism twenty ' s
years earliest triumph , when human hands were first superseded in the of the production Stocking of Loom textile fabrics Pleasan , t by indeed the unwearied is the reflection iron fingers that
. the this clothing first vernal arts blossoming was the growth of prac of t tender ical science domestic , as app affe lied ction to
legend and called of William forth , by Lee the influence watching of in woman compelled ; for idleness the graceful the ,
patien evolved t t in herefrom dustry of which his young hould spare wife , till fut t he t oil h , is idea happ w a y s
vary too well , for us authenticated ever to be com , ho p w elle ever d t o ts yield minor it up circum as a st mer ances e myth may ;
while of late years it has been disseminated far and wide by which engravings we seem from almost that char to m see ing the illus intense tration of thoug it b ht y of Elmore the rap , in t
the student swift , as motions his penetrating of the knitter gaze fastens ' s fin on ers the as wires the , mean follow s b g gy
mind which . they Strange may be is i it that tated Elizabeth gradually could reveal and , have sad them looked is selves it th coldl t at o hi he y s
on should such have a man been and compelled such an to invention seek in , a foreign land that denied him in his
But recompense the monster of his error ingenuity that has which always was so bitterly opposed own the _. the alert to
progress of mechanical Science was already on
158 Woman's Work ''In The World's Clothi...
158 WOMAN ' WORK ' 'IN THE WORLD ' S CLOTHING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/14/
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