The history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and other fibrous substances : including observations on spinning, dyeing, and weaving ; also an account of the pastoral life of the ancients, their social state and attainments in the domestic arts. With appendices on Pliny's Natural history ; on the origin and manufacture of linen and cotton paper ; on felting, netting, &c. Deduced from copious and authentic sources. Illustrated by steel engravings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilroy, Clinton G.

Contributor:

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics--History.

Textile fabrics.

History, Ancient.

Textile industry--History.

Textile industry.

Genre:

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1845.

Embossed bindings (Binding)

Physical Description:

xxii, 464 p. : plates ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Brothers, 1845.

Contents:

Part First. Ancient history of Silk.

Spinning, dyeing, and weaving.

History of the silk manufacture continued to 4th century.

History of silk manufacture from the third to the sixth century.

History of silk manufacture continued from the introduction of silk-worms into Europe, A.D. 530, to the fourteenth century.

Silk and golden textures of the ancients.

Silver textures, etc., of the ancients.

Description of the silk-worm, etc.

General observations on the Chinese mode of rearing silk-worms, etc.

The spider.

Fibres or silken material of the Pinna.

Fibres, or silken materials of the pine-apple.

Mallows.

Spartum or Spanish Broom.

Part Second. Origin and ancient history of sheep.

Sheep's wool.

Sheep-breeding and pastoral life of the ancients, illustrations of the Scriptures, etc.

Goats-hair.

Beavers-wool.

Camels-wool and camels-hair.

Part Third. Ancient history of the cotton manufacture.

Great antiquity of the cotton manufacture in India, unrivalled skill of the Indian weaver.

Spinning and weaving, marvellous skill displayed in these arts.

Part Fourth. Ancient history of the linen manufacture.

Flax.

Hemp.

Asbestos.

Appendix A. On Pliny's Natural history.

Appendix B. On the origin and manufacture of linen and cotton paper.

Appendix C. On felt.

Appendix D. On netting.

Notes:

Plate VII is a hand-colored map; plates VIII and IX are folded leaves.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in brown cloth, gilt image of a woman on the front cover with an embossed decorative border; gilt image of a man reading under a tree, holding a goat embossed on spine; gilt decorative binding.

Cited in:

Sabin 32153

OCLC:

1463071