A facsimile of a handwritten and illustrated textbook of advanced cotton weaving for second- and third-year students, prepared for the City & Guilds of London Institutes examinations. It covers the Jacquard machine in its many forms (single and double lift, open shed, centre shed, cross border), card cutting, tie-ups and harness building, and design paper. It goes on to cover cloth structures: diapers, damasks, brocades, double cloths, gauze and leno, quilting, tapestries, terry and pile fabrics, figured velvets, carpets, lappet and swivel weaving, and novelty effects. Mechanical motions such as drop and skip boxes, dobbies, weft forks and automatic looms are also covered. Many pages carry line drawings of mechanisms, point-paper designs and weave diagrams. Trade advertisements for Lancashire textile machinery makers fill the end of the volume.

Type

Book

Date

1912

Language

English

Pages

171

Weaving drafts

on 32 pages: 46, 50, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 70, 72, 74, 81, 82  and 20 more

Archive notes

Facsimile