Wilkinson, John Gardner; Birch, Samuel [Contr.]: The Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs: being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections (London, 1857)

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DOMESTIC HABITS OF THE EGYPTIANS.

it advanced towards completion, in order to make room for the
working of the macliine, by winding it round pegs fixed at
intervals in the ground, is precisely similar to that still adopted

(W. 75.)

in Ethiopia. The running the threads off several balls, placed
in a frame, also illustrates the simplicity of the process they
adopted in these and other operations, which is still a marked
peculiarity in the manufactures of the East (figs. 12, 13).

3Iat-making was exactly similar to that adopted by the
modern Egyptians, and by the Spaniards of Andalusia, who
derived it from the Moors; and the mode of laying out the
frame on the level ground, and pinning it down with hooked
pegs, as well as the position of the workman, might serve to
represent the modern, as completely as the ancient, process.

Carpenters and cabinet-makers were a very numerous class ;