Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1929, Page 125

ST ATER, THEY LEARNED 7O SPIN THE @ FIBERS WITH A ROUND STONE, — EdHeN ey Founp THEY Coulp MAKE A STRONGER THR BY TWISTING THE FIBERS TOGETHER , AT FIRST THE TWISTING WAS DONE WITH THE _i 2l FINGERS ., — EONG BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORY MANKIND HAD LEARNED To SEW, SPIN AND> WEAVE. — =28 n — ' : “ BHE FIRSY —= PREMISTORIC WOMEN DISCOVERED> ™™ 7~ 5~ : / ( C:;:";Sf 36?’21:455 S = / « - o =SS W Vil == J4AT THE FIBERS oF THE FLAX —— UPON A ROUGH FRAME . = Z= PLANT CoulD BE USED FOR THREAP. — ° ki EE—— :,vz = Z /i HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY Chapter CXXVIL: Cloth Ma ng in the Middle Ages. By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD D a4 | “ e Wi, = . ‘- : [Dur worD " MANUFACTURE " DERIVED FROM LATIN WORDS MEANING MADE BY HAND IS A HERITAGE FRoOM THE MIDDLE AGES WHEN EVERY MANUFACTUREP> ARTICLE WAS MADE BY HAND. A GREAT MANY NECESSARY ARTICLES WERE MADE IN THE HOME, AND A LARGE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE OFTHAT DAY WORE MOME-SPUN CLOTHES, THE CHRIEF RAW MATERIALS FOR MAKING CLOTH WERE FLAX AND WOOL . FLAX WAS FIRST STORED IN A DAMP PLACE AND ALLOWED To ROT ON THE ouTSIDE 50 THAT THE TOUGIH OUuTER STALIK WHICH COVERED THE FIBERS OF THE PLANT couLD BE REMOVED MORE EASILY. —° < ' fosd OR WOOL couLp BE SPUN INTO THREAD 1T HAD TO BE COMBED ANP “CARDED" TO REMOVE THE TANGLES ARD STRAIGHTEN THE FIBERS. I\ GuncH oF THE RAW LINT was THEN WOUND AROUND A ROTATING STAFF CALLED A" DISTAFF, AND THE FIBERS WERE DRAWN OUT AND SPUN INTO e BunpLES OF FLAX WERE POUNDED WITH A CLUB To REMOVE THE ROTTED STALKS FROM THE FIBERS. #l | U= clota as 1T camE From THE - e ‘m ' LOOM WAS STIF AND COARSE AND = [} REQUIRED SOFTENING THIS WAS DONE CLOTH UPON A CRUDE LOOM. LeanN- | [ BY ALTERNATELY NASgING TN »gg% ING TO OPERATE A LOOM WAS SOAPY WATER AND BEATING IT PART OF THE TRAINING OF EVERY WITH A WOODEN CLUB OR PADPLE. GIRL IN THE MIDDLE AGES. =9 | § ThiS PROCESS WAS CALLED FULLING,' e spinNING WHEEL wWiHICH Took THE PLACE OF THE DISTAFF AND HAND SPINDLE DID> NOT COME INTO GEN- ERAL USE UNTIL THE 17T CENTURY., SPINNING FELL TO THE SINGLE WOMEN OF THE MOUSEHOLD, AND FOR THAT REASON ALL LUINMARRIED WOMEN WERE CALLED "SPINSTERS' WINDING SILIK FRoM THE COCOONS —© © McClure Newspaper Syndicate THE INTRODUCTION of SILK WORM RAISING IN EUROPE, THE PRO - DUCTION OF SiLIX. AND THE MANLFACIURE e £ E]oms BUT THE VERY RICH coutd DRESS IN SILIK,WHICH WES BROUGHT FROM THE DISTANT 3 THoSE DAYS STOCKINGS WER NOT KNITTED,AS THEY ARE TODAY, BUT WERE QUT FROM THE CLOTH IN ORIENT BY ITALIAN Ti ERS OF SILKK CLOTH BECAME FLOURISHING TWO PIECESAND SEWED TOGETHER. | | AND WAS VERY cosTLY. ——° INDUSTRIES IN ITALY AND FRANCE, If You Save This Page Each Week You Will Have a Complete History of Man.