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Excerpt from Shuttle-Craft Courses in Weaving Weaving is an art as old as man himself. The very first man of all must have had an instinct in his fingers that led him to interlace twigs and grasses for shelter and covering. Without this instinct he might never have been a man at all. So it is not surprising that almost everyone likes to weave! I believe that the only reason so few - comparatively - know the pleasure of weaving is the difficulty in getting information, instruction, equipment and supplies. Following the introduction of machinery, hand-weaving became among us almost a lost art. Now, however, it is being revived, and I confidently look forward to a day when a hand-loom will be as customary a piece of house hold furniture as it was in the days of our great-great-grand parents. Many of the textiles of that day have come down to us. We recognize in them a charm and beauty impossible in a machine made product. But we need not sigh over the good old days, there is nothing to keep us from producing today, in exactly the same manner, things just as beautiful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.