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The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-17549-2; Weigle, Marta (2007, 1982). Spiders and Spinsters: Women and Mythology. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press. ISBN 978-0-86534-587-4; Volkmann, Helga (2008). Purpurfäden und Zauberschiffchen: Spinnen und Weben in Märchen und Mythen. Göttingen ...
Muslin (/ ˈ m ʌ z l ɪ n /) is a cotton fabric of plain weave. [1] It is made in a wide range of weights from delicate sheers to coarse sheeting. [ 2 ] It is commonly believed that it gets its name from the city of Mosul, Iraq .
On June 16, 2009, the Enchanted Village, including all props and figures was sold at auction, as the City of Boston could no longer afford to be a major sponsor of the annual event. [5] It was sold to Jordan's Furniture (which is a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and had no connection to the former Jordan Marsh ), and is on display ...
In addition to the loom-woven fabric, the town of Paisley became a major site for the manufacture of printed cotton and wool in the 1800s, according to the Paisley Museum and Art Galleries. [20] In this process, the paisley pattern was printed, rather than woven, onto other textiles, including cotton squares which were the precursors of the ...
Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns. [1] The "loom" he refers to was undoubtedly meant to be a Jacquard loom, used for weaving fabric into complex patterns. The Jacquard loom ...
Amy Zerner was born in Teaneck, New Jersey in 1951 to a family of artists. Her maternal grandfather Clayton Spicer was a landscape painter, while her mother Jessie Spicer Zerner was an illustrator of children's books. [4]