Aboriginal American Weaving

Project Gutenberg's Aboriginal American Weaving, by Mary Lois KissellThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Aboriginal American WeavingAuthor: Mary Lois KissellRelease Date: February 11, 2008 [EBook #24568]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABORIGINAL AMERICAN WEAVING ***Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet Archive/American Libraries.)Aboriginal American Weaving—— BY ——MISS MARY LOIS KISSELL,American Museum of Natural History,NEW YORK CITY.A Paper Read before The National Association of Cotton Manufacturersat their Eighty-eighth Meeting at Mechanics Fair Building,Boston, Mass., April 27th, 1910.titlepagedecorationABORIGINAL AMERICAN WEAVING.Miss Mary Lois Kissell, American Museum of Natural History, New York City.Wonderful as is the development of modern machinery for the manufacture of American textiles—machinery which seems almost human in the way it converts raw materials into finished cloth; just assurprising are the most primitive looms of the American aborigines, who without the aid of machinerymake interesting weavings with only a bar upon which to suspend the warp threads ...