The Self-Instructor in Textile Designing; or, A Practical Guide in Designing & Weaving
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A 1890 manual for woolen-mill designers and loom workers, written to let readers teach themselves textile designing and weaving. It covers design-paper notation, terminology, dissecting a sample cloth, and the stock figuring that goes with it: loss in manufacture, wool shrinkage and cost, and mixes. It then works through attaching backs to fabrics, combining weaves, double and triple (three-ply) weaves, miscellaneous weaves, and broken twills and satins. Later chapters give yarn count tables and calculations, and instructions for setting up right- and left-hand twills on cam and chain looms. More than sixty pages carry weave drafts and drawdown figures, and the text refers to cloth samples made for the book.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1890
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 146
- Weaving drafts
- on 60 pages: 23, 30, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 48 more
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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