WEAVING
WEBB
All Egyptian Loom, (k is a shuttle, not thrown, but put iu with llie hand. It had a hook at each end.)
vii, 6); the thrum (tl^'n) or threads which attached the web to the beam (Isa. xxxviii, 12, marg.) ; and the web itself (Judg. xvi, 14; A. V. "beam"). Whether the two terms in Lev. xiii, 48, rendered " warp" ("^rd) and "woof" (j'l>), really mean these admits of doubt, inasmuch as it is not easy to see how the one could be affected with leprosy without the other: perhaps the terms refer to certain kinds of texture (Knobel,flrf /oc). The shuttle is occasionally dispensed with, the woof be- ing passed through with the hand (Robinson, Bibl. Res. i. Kilt)- The speed with which the weaver used his shuttle, and the decisive manner in which he separated the web from the thrum when his work was done, sup- plied vivid images — the former of the rapid passage of life (Job vii, 6), the latter of sudden death (Isa. xxxviii, 12).
The textures produced by the Jewish weavers were very various. The coarser kinds, such as tent-cloth, sackcloth, and the "hairj' garments" of the poor, were made of goat's or camel's hair (Exod. xxvi, 7 ; Matt, iii, 4). Wool was extensively used for ordinary clothing (I^v. xiii, 47 ; Prov. xxvii, 26 ; xxxi, 13 ; Ezek. xxvii, 18); while for finer work flax was used, varying in quality, and producing the different textures described in the Bible as " linen" and " fine linen." The mixture
of wool and Hax in cloth intended for a garment was in- ...
terdicted (Lev. xix, 19; Deut. xxii, 11). With regard ' ^^^" ^^ '^'""-^^ ""^ed forty-hve years, hee A to the ornamental kinds of work, the " needlework"^and ^^'"'^'^ ^"■*^"'' l*^'^^' P' '^^-• "the work of the cunning workman" have already been "Webb, Daniel, a INIethodist Episcopal minister, discussed under the head of Nkedlewokk to the effect was born at Canterbury, Conn., April 13, 1778. He era- that both kinds were produced in the loom, and that > braced religion in 1797, and immediately began his life- the distinction between them lay in the addition of a ] work of preaching. He entered the New England Con- device or pattern in the latter, the rikmah consisting ' ference in his twentieth year, and labored on its many
and vast circuits, with marvellous endurance and experience, until 1814, when the wide-spread distress occasioned by the war with Great Britain compelled him to locate, which he did at Newport. Here he opened a school, and for nine years performed the responsible duties of both schoolmaster and preacher in charge. In 1823 he rejoined the New England Conference, and dur- ing the following eighteen years filled the most important charges in the Conference ; published theZ2Ws Herald one year (1827); and was presiding elder for several years. In 1841 lie superannuated; in 1843 he was transferred to the Providence Conference, and was stationed first at Little Compton, and then at
simply of a variegated stuff without a pattern. We may further notice the terms (1) shubdt^ CfyC) and tashbits (1^3'iri), applied to the robes of the priest (Exod. xxviii, 4, 39), and signifying tesselu/ed (A. V. " broidered"), i. e. with depressions probably of a square shape worked in it, similar to the texture described by the Romans under the term sciitidatus (Pliny, viii, 73; Juvenal, ii, 97); this was produced in the loom, as it is expressly said to be the work of the weaver (Exod. xxxix, 27) ; (2) moshzdr (ntTr'a) (A. V. " twined"), ap- plied to the fine linen out of which the curtains of the tabernacle and the sacerdotal vestments were made (xxvi, 1; xxviii, 6, etc.) ; in this texture each thread consisted of several finer threads twisted together, as is described to have been the case with tlie famed corselet of Amasis (Herod, iii, 47) ; (3) mishbetsoth zahdb
(zm n^isa'r^) (A. v. "of wrought gold"),
textures in which gold-thread was interwoven (Psa. xlv, 13). The Babylonians were partic- ularly skilful in this branch of weaving, and embroidered groups of men or animals on the robes (Pliny, viii, 74; Layard, Nineveh, ii, 413). The "goodly Babylonish garment" secreted by Achan was probably of this char- acter (Josh, vii, 21 ). The sacerdotal vestments are said to have been woven in one piece without the in- tervention of any needlework to join the seams (Jose- phus, /l?if. iii, 7, 4). The "coat without seam" (%irwi/ appa^ot,'), worn by Jesus at the time of his crucifixion (John xix, 23), was probably of a sacerdotal character in this respect, but made of a less costly material (Carp- zov, Appar. p. 72). — Smith. See Wkb.
Web : 1. The spider's (P^^a, bdyith, Job viii, 14, a house, as elsewhere ; n"'"l!lp,/.«/7' w, Isa. lix, 5, 6, threads') ; 2. Of the loom (PDS"?, masseketh, Judg. xvi, 13, 14, warp, as woven). See Weaving.
"Webb, Benjamin C, a clergyman of the Protes- tant Episcopal Church. His ministry was devoted t© one object, the salvation of the Southern slaves, having had charge of several large plantations in Prince Will- iam County, Va. In 1854 he removed from the low country to Abbeville, S. C, to take charge of a white congregation, hoping to improve his health by the change of climate; but he resigned the Church, and was seeking relief at Wilson's Springs, N. C, in 1855,