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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 10 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 2 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
e clamp. A tool for giving the proper pitch to a new axlespindle, or for straightening one which is bent. Ax′minster Car′pet. A carpet with a flax or jute chain and a woolen or worsted filling which is formed into a pile. The patent Axminster carpet, as made at Glasgow, is made first as a woven fringe, which is afterwards adapted to a thick flax backing. The carpet is named from the town of Axminster, Devonshire, England, where the manufacture was formerly carried on. It has beenAxminster, Devonshire, England, where the manufacture was formerly carried on. It has been discontinued at that place. It is of the Turkey variety. The linen chain or warp is placed perpendicularly between two rolls or beams, one of which carries the warp, and the other the finished carpet. Small tufts or bunches of different colored worsted or woolen are tied to or fastened under the warp; and when one row of these tufts has been completed, a linen weft thread is thrown in and firmly rammed down. Another row of tufts is then knotted in, the selection of colors being such as to
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ufactory being established at Chaillot, near Paris. Workmen from France introduced carpet-making into England about 1750. A carpet-factory was established at Axminster, 1755, the year of the Lisbon earthquake. There are several characteristic processes in the manufacture of carpets. 1. The web is formed of a warp and wefthe pattern. The tufts are locked in position by a shoot of the weft, the crossing of the warp, and the beating of the batten or lathe. The Persian, Turkey, and Axminster carpets are thus formed. 2. The web is formed of a warp and weft, as stated above, and the colored worsted yarns are laid along with the linen warp, and drawnlaces when woven into a fabric. 9. A pile is cemented to a backing-fabric. See cemented-back carpet. For the varieties of carpets see the following: — Axminster carpet.Ingrain carpet. Brussels carpet.Kidderminster carpet. Cemented-back carpet.Persian carpet. Chenille carpet.Pile carpet. Damask carpet.Printed carpet.
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, The soldiers' guardian angel. (search)
rce battle that was impending, without being near them to minister relief and comfort to soul and body. Accordingly she went over, and was received with the most cordial of welcomes by the Ninth Corps, who regarded her as almost their guardian angel. She at once organized hospital kitchens, provided supplies for the wounded, and when the wounded men were brought in, sought to alleviate their sufferings. While thus engaged, one day, some soldiers came to her quarters, bringing an elegant Axminster carpet, whose great weight almost crushed them to the ground. What is this? asked Miss Barton. A carpet we have brought for your quarters, answered the soldiers. Where did you get it? asked Miss Barton. Oh! We confiscated it! the soldiers replied promptly. No! No! said Miss Barton, that will never do. Government confiscates, but soldiers, when they take such things, steal! I thank you for the kind spirit which prompted you to bring it to me, and am very sorry, but you must carry
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Micaiah Towgood. (search)
exercise the privilege of enlightened impartial inquiry; and in his search after Christian truth he never forgot to cultivate Christian charity, and to make the principles he professed the means of forming and purifying the best affections of the heart. These views and feelings he carried into all the relations of life, and more especially displayed their influence in his active and conscientious discharge of the duties of the Christian ministry. The subject of this memoir was born at Axminster, in Devonshire, December 17, 1700. His grandfather, the Rev. Matthew Towgood, was one of the venerable two thousand who witnessed a good confession on St. Bartholomew's-day, 1662. His descendant thus concludes a brief memoir of him inserted in Palmer's Nonconformist's Memorial,—I esteem it a greater honour to descend from one of these noble confessors than to have had a coronet or garter in the line of my ancestry. I look forward with joy to the approaching happy day, when that glorious
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], The White-House at Washington — an interesting description. (search)
ign, but because of the fact that it is in one piece, and covers a floor measuring one hundred feet long and forty-eight feet wide. There is nothing flashy or extravagant about its appearance. The admiration of the beholder is not suddenly excited by a view of the whole surface, so ingeniously and beautifully, are the various figures and colors harmonized. It is like a constellation of stars, where the beauty of one star is lost in the combined grandeur of the whole. It is a very heavy Axminster, with three medallions gracefully arranged into one grand medallion. As we walk over its velvet surface from centre to sides, or from corner to corner, the most chaste and beautiful surprises of vases, wreaths and bouquets of flowers and fruit pieces excite our love of true art. The carpet, in its mechanical construction, as well as in its artistic design, is a wonder. It was made in Glasgow, Scotland, upon the only loom existing in the world capable of weaving one so large. Mr. W. H. C