Technical Education
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A four-page instalment from The Textile Mercury (23 May 1891) reprinting question papers from the 1891 City and Guilds of London Institute Technological Examinations. It covers wool and worsted weaving (Ordinary and Honours grades, with point-paper design, draft and pegging-plan problems, yarn counts, costing, Jacquard, dobby, tappet and gauze questions), lace manufacture, jute weaving, hosiery, wool and worsted spinning and jute spinning. The remaining page carries miscellaneous items on the decline of Spitalfields silk weaving, Chinese velvet, an Indian cotton mill and textile symbolism, followed by the start of a cotton market report.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1891
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
- Weaving drafts
- on 2 pages: 1, 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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