The earliest woolen cloths found in Scandinavia are quite rough and irregular, but cloths dating from the Roman Ages are much finer and closely woven. The more regular cloth has a plain twill weave, ...

The art of weaving loom, an ancient textile production method dating back thousands of years, involves the interlacing of ...

Anshutz; coverlet; Figured and Fancy, double cloth; c. 1845; Ohio National Museum of American History Jacob Schnell coverlet; jacquard, single weave, Pennsylvania, 1869 National Museum of American ...

The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...