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PREHISTORIC TEXTILE ART. 



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already described, but are t-\visted in such a way as to inclose two of 

 the opposing series instead of one, each succeeding pair of warp threads 

 taking up alternate pairs of the woof threads. Figure 25 is from a 



Flu. 26. — Twined fabric, with patterns, Ohio valley. 



small piece of pottery exhumed from a mound on Fain island, Jefferson 

 county, Tennessee. The threads of the woof are quite close together, 

 those of the web being far apart. 



Fig. 27.— Net from ancient pottery, District of Columbia. 



That the native love of decoration had a marked influence on the 

 weavers' art in its simplest and rudest as well as higher forms is well 



