Three pages from Posselt's Textile Journal, March 1912, in the series on designing and fabric structure. The first part gives a worked example for a checked zephyr dress fabric: warp and filling colors, reed, take-up, and calculations of yarn weight for 40 pieces of 50 yards. The second part explains designing by changing the texture of the warp within the weave repeat, which gives piqué or matelassé-like embossed effects (plain weave for raised areas, a 2-2 filling rib for depressed areas), with diamond and oval spot drafts and harness requirements. The last page begins with a continuation of the series on gauze or leno weaving, covering doups, whip threads, and stripe effects.

Type

Article

Date

1912

Language

English

Pages

3

Weaving drafts

on 3 pages: 1, 2, 3

Archive notes

Scanned images provided by John Cropper.