A long French encyclopedia article on weaving (Tissage) from a dictionary of arts, manufactures and agriculture. It covers the history of weaving, general principles of warp and weft, a classification of fabrics into classes and genres, and the preparation of yarns (bobbin winding, warping, sizing, wetting of weft). It then treats heddles and weave structures (plain, twill, satin, velvet pile), squared-paper design drafting (mise en carte), hand and power looms, and the Jacquard mechanism with punched cards and shawl looms. It ends with velvet weaving, a table of thread counts for 33 cotton fabrics, and high-warp and low-warp tapestry weaving at the Gobelins. Many engraved figures numbered 2438-2506 illustrate looms and fabric structure.

Type

Article

Date

1891

Language

French

Pages

40

Weaving drafts

on 5 pages: 11, 12, 13, 14, 16

Archive notes

Scanned from microfilm; poor quality