Art du fabricant d'étoffes de Soie [The Art of the Silk Fabric Manufacturer]
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Volume IX of the Neuchatel edition of the Descriptions des arts et métiers, containing the first six parts of Paulet's treatise on the art of the silk-fabric manufacturer (L'Art du fabricant d'étoffes de soie). It covers silk raising and reeling, silk dyeing (after Macquer and Hellot), winding and the devidoir, warping (ourdissage) with many cantre and ourdissoir types and Lyon, Nîmes and Avignon methods, warp beaming (pliage), bobbin and espolin making, and the making of heddles and reeds. A few threading and stripe-arrangement diagrams appear, and the volume ends with numerous engraved plates of machinery and workshops.
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