Weaving - Early works to 1800

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The weaver's pocket-companion containing, twenty-two caaming (or sleying) tables; each for a different kind of work. And seventeen warping tables, shewing by inspection, how many porters and splits--- also how many hears, cutts and threads, are required to an ell of any breadth, from half-ell to six-quarters, and for any reed, from a three hundred and three porter, to a twenty hundred. Likewise a copious table, shewing how many ells of any kind from a three hundred and three porter, (advancing porter by porter) to a twenty hundred, may be made out of any quantity of yarn. With several other necessary articles belonging to the weaver trade. The whole being so clearly explained both by precepts and examples, that any person who understands the practical part of weaving, may easily acquire an accurate knowledge of manufacturing. By J. Wotherspoon and W. Stevenson, weavers in Glasgow.
Wotherspoon, J.Date: M DCC LXXIX. [1779]
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The religious weaver Or, Pious meditations on the trade of weaving. Viz. Its honourable antiquity. Its distinguishing advantages. The raw or rough materials; -preparing them; -putting them into the loom; the weaver at work in his loom; -finishing his piece; -receiving his wages; the peculiar success of some weavers. A wish for the trade's general prosoperity. By Benjamin Fawcett, M.A.
Fawcett, Benjamin, 1715-1780.Date: 1773
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Mathematical sleaing tables or, the great and only mystery of weaving linen cloth explained. By which the most ignorant Weaver is infallibly directed how to adjust the Reed to the Yarn: And The Buyer truly shewn whether the Cloth be wrought to its due Perfection. Taken from Geometrical Proportions, and fitted to the meanest Capacity. Published by the special order of the Honourable the House of Commons, and by order of the Honourable trustees for the improvement of the linen manufacture in this kingdom. By Joseph Beaumont, Merchant.
Beaumont, JosephDate: 1754