Volume 1 of a German handbook on weaving cloth and buckskin (woolen suiting) fabrics on hand and power looms, by G. Hermann Oelsner, a teacher at the weaving and manufacturers' school in Werdau. It covers wool and spinning, yarn numbering, warping, sizing and beaming, drafting (threading), reeding, the countermarch and dobby machines, and the basic weaves (plain, twill, satin) with their derived weaves. Later sections treat double and multiple cloths, floconné, piqué, stripe, check and brochè effects, the Jacquard machine and harness ties, pattern drawing for Jacquard, card cutting, the Clavis machine, shuttle changing, and weave patterns and drafts. It is illustrated with 89 lithographed plates of drawdowns, weave sections and machine diagrams.

Type

Book

Date

1879

Language

German

Pages

307

Weaving drafts

on 70 pages: 56, 57, 68, 75, 84, 85, 94, 95, 97, 98, 107, 108  and 58 more

Archive notes

Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish