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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Why, thou hast never come to Monkbarns since thy perils by rock and flood here's something for thee to buy snuff," and, fumbling for his purse, he pulled out at the same time the horn which enclosed the coins. "Ay, and there's something to pit it in," said the mendicant, eyeing the ram's horn "that loom's an auld acquaintance o' mine.
"Why, thou hast never come to Monkbarns since thy perils by rock and flood here's something for thee to buy snuff," and, fumbling for his purse, he pulled out at the same time the horn which enclosed the coins. "Ay, and there's something to pit it in," said the mendicant, eyeing the ram's horn "that loom's an auld acquaintance o' mine.
As every tapestry taken from the loom appears punctured with tiny slits, places left open in the weaving, and as all of these need careful sewing before the tapestry is finished, a corps of needlewomen is a part of a loom's equipment. This is true in all but the ateliers of the Merton Abbey factory, of which we shall speak later. Apart from repairs, what is being done in the present day?
She matches the colour of silk and wool to the elusive shades and covers stitch by stitch the bare threads, in perfect imitation of the loom's way. Sometimes the warp is gone. Then the work tests the best skill. The threads, the chaîne, must be picked up, one by one, and united invisibly to the new, and then the pattern woven over with the needle.
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