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American Weaving, by Mary Lois Kissell
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Title: Aboriginal American Weaving
Author: Mary Lois Kissell
Release Date: February 11, 2008 [EBook #24568]
Language: English
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Aboriginal American Weaving
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MISS MARY LOIS KISSELL,
American Museum of Natural History,
NEW YORK CITY.
A Paper Read before The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers at their Eighty-eighth Meeting at Mechanics Fair Building, Boston, Mass., April 27th, 1910.
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ABORIGINAL AMERICAN WEAVING.
MISS MARY LOIS KISSELL, American Museum of Natural History, New York City.
Wonderful as is the development of modern machinery for the manufacture of American textiles--machinery which seems almost human in the way it converts raw materials into finished cloth; just as surprising are the most primitive looms of the American aborigines, who without the aid of machinery make interesting weavings with only a bar upon which to suspend the warp threads while the human hand comple