[Fabric entries from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, A to W]
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A collection of alphabetical dictionary entries on fabrics (from Abee to Wire-cloth) extracted from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. Entries give brief definitions of the fibers, structure, finish, place of origin and use of several hundred cloths, including woolens, linens, cottons, silks, pile fabrics, gauzes and wire cloth. Some entries add historical quotations (Pepys, Swift, Shakespeare) and a few give technical detail on gauze weaving, watering silk, shoddy, grass-cloth preparation, and wire-cloth patents.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 10
- Archive notes
- Collected short articles
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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