A Study in Plain and Fancy Selvages
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An article from Posselt's Textile Journal (October 1918) on the purpose, construction and faults of selvages in woven cloth, especially woolen and worsted goods. It covers selvage width and yarn choice, problems caused by selvages that are too long or too short in finishing, and loom causes of poor selvages such as shuttle tension, temples and filling stop motion. A section on fancy selvages gives two drawdown diagrams: a 6 by 4 basket selvage with a 6-harness twill, and a heavy-float selvage with a 3-harness twill. The article ends "To be continued." Two short unrelated items follow on the same pages.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- October 1918
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Weaving drafts
- on 1 page: 2
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by John Cropper.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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