[Cloth finishing terms from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary]
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A single page of short dictionary entries from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary (1876) on cloth finishing terms. It defines cloth-paper (used between folds in the finishing press), picking cloth (removing blemishes with tweezers and touching up undyed spots), snugging (rubbing down fuzzy rope fibers), and tabbying (passing fabric between engraved rollers to give a watered or moiré effect).
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
- 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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