Khlopkopriadenie [Cotton Spinning]
Sample pages
![Khlopkopriadenie [Cotton Spinning], page 8](https://cdnarchive.handweaving.net/textile-documents/thumbs/5424/p0008-1000.webp)
Page 8, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
A Russian encyclopedia article on the weaving industry (Tkatskoe proizvodstvo), covering the whole sequence from yarn to unfinished cloth. It describes warp and weft preparation (winding, warping, sizing, drafting), the parts and operation of hand looms and power looms, the shuttle and fly shuttle, and shedding mechanisms from treadles and counter-marches to the Jacquard and Verdol machines. It also explains how to transfer designs to point paper and work out the lifting plan for a weave, and it includes a bibliography and a section on weavers' health and workshop ventilation. Two plates of engraved machinery figures and several pages of draft figures accompany the text.
(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 »