Excerpt from The Draper's Dictionary: A Manual of Textile Fabrics; Their History and Applications A tag of a point curved into some representation of an animal, generally of a man (johnson). Properly the point fastened on the end of a lace for drawing it through the eyelet-holes, then, like E. Point, applied to the lace itself (wedgwood). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten ...
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Excerpt from The Draper's Dictionary: A Manual of Textile Fabrics; Their History and Applications A tag of a point curved into some representation of an animal, generally of a man (johnson). Properly the point fastened on the end of a lace for drawing it through the eyelet-holes, then, like E. Point, applied to the lace itself (wedgwood). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher:
The Warehousemen & Drapers; Journal Office
Published:
1880
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15379205123
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. 8vo. 377pp + 2pp ads. Or brown cloth titled in gilt and decorated in blind. Spine a bit faded, name torn from front free endpaper, moderate foxing. No date-circa late 1870s/1880. A-Z of textile fabrics and their history.