Fabric Analysis
Sample pages
Page 1, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
Installment of Posselt's serial on fabric analysis (June 1916), covering chemical tests to identify and separate cotton, wool, silk, and artificial silks. It describes reagents such as caustic soda, sulphuric acid, ammoniacal copper hydrate, sodium plumbite, fuchsine, and zinc chloride, with their effects on each fibre. It also covers detecting shoddy in new wool, a quantitative analysis of raw silk, and how to tell true, wild (tussah), and artificial silk apart. The scan also includes the start of a Silk Throwing installment on Chinese raw silk reeling.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1916
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by John Cropper.
(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 »