A German-language handbook on warp sizing (Schlichterei) published in Leipzig in 1908 and edited by J. Schams, director of the Royal Weaving School in Münchberg. It covers sizing methods, size materials (starch, glue, additives), size-cooking apparatus, hand sizing, and mechanical sizing of yarn in skeins and of warps in sheet form. The machine chapters describe skein sizing, cylinder (Sizing) machines, Scottish brush machines, air-drying machines and carpet-warp machines from makers such as Haubold, Howard & Bullough, Sucker and Prüfer. A closing section gives sizing preparations and recipes for cotton, wool, linen and worsted warps, and publisher and machinery advertisements follow. It has about 130 text figures of machines and apparatus but no weaving drafts.

Type

Book

Date

1908

Language

German

Pages

164

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