Designing
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Two-page extract from The Textile Mercury containing a 'Designing' column on power-loom cloth design. It explains reversible double-weft carriage rug fabrics (Design 26, with notes on warp, weft, picks per inch and raising/finishing), a double plain alternative, and a striped worsted trousering (Design 28) with a draft and pegging plan. Page 1 also carries the end of an article on the Spitalfields silk-weaving district and notes on dyeing, including Alizarine Yellow G.G. and R. recipes for wool and cotton.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1890
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Weaving drafts
- on 1 page: 2
- Archive notes
- Digital photography.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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