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... weaving were well known to the inhabitants . It has been shown that they were also sometimes used as buttons . Some have been found recently in the remains of huts of the primitive inhabitants of Anglesea , at Holyhead ; and they have ...
... weaving were well known to the inhabitants . It has been shown that they were also sometimes used as buttons . Some have been found recently in the remains of huts of the primitive inhabitants of Anglesea , at Holyhead ; and they have ...
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... Weaving . Ulster Journal . 66 66 " In our old English literature , the distaff is alluded to as an ordinary " instrument ; and the subject of spinning is mentioned in a connection in " which no other instrument could have suited . Thus ...
... Weaving . Ulster Journal . 66 66 " In our old English literature , the distaff is alluded to as an ordinary " instrument ; and the subject of spinning is mentioned in a connection in " which no other instrument could have suited . Thus ...
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... weaving , ten years ago , ( some passages from which have just been quoted , ) there was one part which I could not understand , nor could any one who had seen the operation give me de- finite information respecting it . This was , how ...
... weaving , ten years ago , ( some passages from which have just been quoted , ) there was one part which I could not understand , nor could any one who had seen the operation give me de- finite information respecting it . This was , how ...
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... made by " the women . Some of the needlework was very fine and The women appear to have spun yarn for " all the cloth that was in use , and much of the weaving 66 " much valued . 66 66 seems to have been executed by them . 44.
... made by " the women . Some of the needlework was very fine and The women appear to have spun yarn for " all the cloth that was in use , and much of the weaving 66 " much valued . 66 66 seems to have been executed by them . 44.
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... weave net " works . " - The Philistine women also appear to have under- stood weaving , for Delilah wove the locks of Samson as a matter of course .-- In ancient Greece , " the most common " employments of women were spinning and weaving ...
... weave net " works . " - The Philistine women also appear to have under- stood weaving , for Delilah wove the locks of Samson as a matter of course .-- In ancient Greece , " the most common " employments of women were spinning and weaving ...
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