Narrow Textile Fabrics
Sample pages
Page 1, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
A chapter from an 1872 survey of American industry describing narrow woven goods through a tour of the Philadelphia firm William H. Horstmann & Sons. It gives a brief biography of founder William H. Horstmann, a German-born silk weaver who came to Philadelphia in 1815 and introduced braiding machines and the Jacquard loom. It then walks through the departments: material and spooling rooms, power-loom and coach-lace rooms, braiding machines, tassel room, sword department, and the wholesale sales departments for trimmings, embroidery wools, flags, military, regalia and theatrical goods. Illustrations include the factory building and a chapter header of ribbons.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1872
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 10
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »