A 1910 textbook on textile design and fabric construction for weavers and mill students, by Fenwick Umpleby. It begins with the hand loom, harness, heddles and design paper, then covers twills, cut weaves, drafting and reduction, rib, basket, sateen, corkscrew and fancy weaves, and diaper and point draws. Later sections give lectures on color, numbered design problems with thread and pick sections, and yarn counts, reed and sett, and cloth analysis calculations. The book ends with plates of standard weaves for 3 to 12 harnesses and has many drawdowns and review questions.

Type

Book

Date

1910

Language

English

Pages

250

Weaving drafts

on 99 pages: 17, 23, 24, 25, 32, 33, 34, 36, 39, 40, 41, 43  and 87 more

Archive notes

Original obtained from North Carolina State University through the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/details/designtextsOOumpl