Textiles
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A comprehensive 1910 textbook on the textile industries from the Westminster Series, written at the Bradford Technical College. It covers the history of textile inventions, fibre production (wool, silk, cotton, flax), artificial and mercerized fibres, dyeing, spinning, preparatory machinery, weaving principles, design and colouring, finishing, yarn calculations, and the woollen, worsted, dress goods, carpet, silk, cotton and linen industries. Chapters by Gardner, Snow, Cook and Bradbury are included. The book has many machine diagrams, micrographs, statistical tables and a few weave and loom-mounting diagrams.
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