Textile Tests for High School
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A 1915 article by a Chicago high school domestic art teacher on teaching textile knowledge to girls beyond sewing skills. It proposes practical classroom tests to detect adulteration and inferior quality in cotton, linen, wool, and silk, including sizing checks, the microscope, olive oil, caustic soda, sulphuric acid, and burning tests. It stresses teaching students to become informed buyers.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1915
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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