Word: woven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was high praise indeed. The loom in which Joseph Marie Jacquard made practical the ideas of several 18th Century inventors was declared public property in France in 1806, and Jacquard was rewarded with royalties, a pension, a statue. In making fabrics with woven-in designs, it is required that every time a thread of weft is passed across the warp, certain needles be lifted from the row, corresponding to the cross-section of the design at that point. Jacquard solved this with a series of perforated cards permitting some needles to pass through the holes and stopping others. Jacquard...
...that the value of sending students abroad must be discovered. Here one finds intimately connected education, peace, and all the other worth-while ideals of mankind. As a stitch in the vast fabric of human events, these student ambassadors, quantitatively considered, represent little. But when many such stitches are woven together in a thread, the direction of events may be changed...
...walls of Manhattan's Squibb Gallery last week hung what was apparently a painting showing a number of little boys skating on ice. Behind this painting lay what seemed to be six window shades. Unrolled, they proved to be six separate paintings on specially woven flexible Dutch canvas that could be detached and placed separately about the walls. This device was the contribution of Artist Hilaire Hiler, 38, to the dilemma of art-lovers living in apartments which lack sufficient wall space to display canvases. Because the individual window shades are not unlike ancient Japanese kakemono paintings, Hilaire Hiler...
...Hilermono was not Artist Hiler's only invention. Also on exhibition was a rug showing Indian ponies woven from the carefully sorted undyed wool of white sheep, black sheep and their intermediates. There were also portraits of Chief Sits-In-The-Fall (No. 1) and Chief Sits-In-The-Spring (No. 2) painted in a new experimental wax resin technique...
...Munro & Co. manufacture an ingenious "Munrospun Sock" into which is woven its own garter. Stopping at their booth, King Edward VIII pulled up his trouser leg, revealing a Munrospun Sock, and said: "I have been wearing socks like these for four years. They are the most remarkable socks you can get. . . . These really are jolly good! British buyers should try out new things. I always do myself." John Dickinson & Co., makers of paper shirt fronts for waiters known as "Dickinson's Dickeys," were favored with a jest by Edward VIII: "Splendid! But will they wash...