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A Cotton Fabrics Glossary
A Cotton Fabrics Glossary
Book · 359 pages · weaving drafts
A 1907 trade compilation of articles on cotton fabrics from the American Wool and Cotton Reporter, published by Frank P. Bennett & Co. Each fabric entry (gingham, crash, damask, terry cloth, dimity, duck, ticking, drill, denim, lawn, calico, Marseilles quilts, crepon, Brighton cloth, and many others) gives the construction (reed, picks, yarn counts, weight, finish), weave, drawing-in draft and reed plan, followed by carding and spinning particulars and dyeing recipes. Other sections cover design-paper preparation for jacquard damask, fabric analysis and yarn-count calculations, and mock leno, honeycomb and Brighton weaves. The volume has many weave drafts and fabric illustrations, plus trade advertisements at the front and back.
Textile Designers' Pocket Manual
Textile Designers' Pocket Manual
Book · 105 pages · weaving drafts
A pocket reference for wool, worsted, union, cotton and silk cloth designers, issued by the American Wool and Cotton Reporter in Boston around 1912. It opens with about 280 numbered design plates of weaves on point paper, including twills, corkscrews, cut weaves, double cloths, rib and plait weaves, followed by explanations of each weave. The remaining chapters give calculation rules and tables for fabric diameters, threads, reed, picks, yarn counts and shrinkage, binding of double cloths, range tickets, finishing, figure weaving, reducing harness by cross drawing, and transposition of weaves.

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