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About the Book Quilting texts describe the history and process of sewing multiple layers of fabric together to make a thicker padded material, usually to create a bed quilt or quilted garment. Typically, a quilt is made in three layers: the top fabric or quilt top, the batting or insulating material, and a backing material. In the process of quilting a quilter uses a needle and thread to join two or more layers of material to make a quilt. Quilts are used as bed spreads, art quilt wall hangings, clothing, and a number of textile products. Other steps involved are the design, piecing, appliqué, and binding. About us Leopold Classic Library has the goal of making available to readers the classic books that have been out of print for decades. While these books may have occasional imperfections, we consider that only hand checking of every page ensures readable content without poor picture quality, blurred or missing text etc. That's why we: • republish only hand checked books; • that are high quality; • enabling readers to see classic books in original formats; that • are unlikely to have missing or blurred pages. You can search "Leopold Classic Library" in categories of your interest to find other books in our extensive collection. Happy reading!
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Robert Hoe was born on March 10, 1839 in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of Robert Hoe, second, and Thyrza (Mead) Hoe. He was a grandson of Robert Hoe, founder of the firm of R. Hoe & Company, and a nephew of Richard March Hoe, the foremost inventor of the family.
Hoe attended the city schools, and then entered the firm of R. Hoe & Company when he was about seventeen.
The Hoe company was busily engaged in manufacturing its type-revolving press and stop cylinder press. In the succeeding twenty-eight years he learned the business thoroughly, working in all departments. Each succeeding year, as his uncles grew older, he assumed greater responsibility, and following the retirement of Peter Smith Hoe and the death of Richard March Hoe in 1886, he became the head of the firm, continuing in that capacity until his death.
He never received patents in his own name for improvements in the printing-press. He bent his energies first toward meeting the demand of newspaper publishers for greater speed of production. After many efforts, and the failure and destruction of several machines, the Hoe double supplement press was produced, the first one being purchased by James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, and put to work in the office of that paper. This press was capable of printing four-, six-, eight-, ten-, and twelve-page papers at the rate of 24, 000 an hour, the odd pages in every case being accurately inserted and pasted in and the papers cut at the top and delivered folded.
The double supplement press was introduced early in the eighties, and a short time thereafter, in 1887, a still faster press known as the quadruple newspaper press was constructed by the Hoe company and placed in the office of the New York World. It was capable of printing 48, 000 eight-page papers in an hour. Although it was thought that the limit of printing capacity in one machine had been reached in this new invention, demands for greater capacities resulted in the design of the sextuple machine in 1889. Eighteen months were required to complete it and it was composed of 16, 000 pieces. The first one completed was installed in the New York Herald office in 1891. This press printed, cut, pasted, folded, counted, and delivered 72, 000 eight-page papers, using about fifty-two miles of paper the ordinary width of the Herald, in an hour.
Under Hoe's direction the company did not stop even at this machine, but continued to make improvements and in 1895 constructed the first sixty-four-page newspaper press, which was followed in 1901 by a ninety-six-page press. Besides the developments which took place under Hoe's guidance in straight newspaper-press construction, there was developed in 1881 the rotary type endless sheet perfecting press. This did even faster work than the regular newspaper press and was designed especially for late afternoon editions. There was also introduced in 1888 a three-page-wide press, and in 1886 the company designed and constructed a perfecting press similar in principle to the newspaper press to do the plain forms of printing of periodicals. The first of these was built for the printer of the Century Magazine. In 1890 a rotary art press was perfected, adapted for printing the finest kind of illustrations.
During the first part of the twentieth century Hoe turned his attention particularly to the art of color printing, and the Hoe company constructed color presses, almost simultaneously installed by the New York Herald and New York World. The most extensive presses of this type and the largest printing machine constructed during Hoe's life was the color press made by his company for the New York Journal and used in printing portions of the Sunday editions of that paper. In 1902 he published A Short History of the Printing Press.
Hoe is remembered as a prominent businessman and is best known for his work at R. Hoe & Company. He was the guiding spirit in the development of presses for doing the finest halftone work for magazines. His collection of old and rare volumes was catalogued under 20, 962 titles and at the time of his death was valued at a million dollars.
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Hoe was the founder and first president of the Grolier Club in New York, before which he delivered A Lecture on Bookbinding as a Fine Art published in 1866, and was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hoe's many years of experience had developed in him not only a keen business sense but an unusual ability to select persons with the right kind of genius to carry into execution the improvements which he himself believed valuable.
On August 12, 1863, Hoe married Olivia Phelps James, the daughter of Daniel James of New York, who with two sons and three daughters survived him.
