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Cotton Machinery Sketches
Cotton Machinery Sketches
Book · 218 pages
A book of line drawings and sketches of cotton spinning machinery by William Scott Taggart, issued as a companion to his book on cotton mill management. It illustrates equipment from bale breakers, mixing, scutchers, openers and carding engines through draw frames, slubbers, intermediates and rovers, to ring frames, spinning mules, winding frames and hank polishing machines. Figures include gearing plans, sections and elevations, and mill floor plans for card rooms and spinning rooms, with some maker illustrations (Dobson & Barlow, Joseph Stubbs, Platt Brothers, Howard & Bullough). The book has prefaces, notes to the second and third editions, and a list of figures; it has no weaving drafts.
Cotton Mill Management
Cotton Mill Management
Book · 317 pages
A British technical manual on the management of a cotton spinning mill, covering each process from bale cotton through mixing, opening, scutching, carding, drawing, combing, roving frames, mules, and ring frames. It also treats testing, yarn conditioning, calculations (drafts, twists, counts, doubling, shaper wheel changes), and mill management and responsibility. It includes many tables of speeds, settings, twists, and yarn weights, along with machinery makers' advertisements at the front and back.
A Handbook of Weaves
A Handbook of Weaves
Book · 414 pages · weaving drafts
A comprehensive handbook of weave construction for power-loom and harness weaving, by the director of the Weaving School at Werdau, translated and revised by Samuel S. Dale, with about 1,875 illustrations. It covers drawing-in drafts and drafting weaves, then the plain, twill, satin, rib, basket, honeycomb, lace (mock leno), crepe, reform, back warp and back filling, double and multi-ply, stitched, combination and transposed weaves. Later sections deal with color effects in warp and filling and a supplement on the analysis of weaves and fabrics, including the 'straight line' method of cloth analysis. Most pages carry drawdown grids with figure numbers and repeat sizes.
Jacquards and Harnesses: Card-Cutting, Lacing and Repeating Mechanism
Jacquards and Harnesses: Card-Cutting, Lacing and Repeating Mechanism
Book · 477 pages · weaving drafts
A technical treatise on Jacquard machines and their accessories, covering harness ties (straight-through, repeating, centre and mixed ties), the preparation of Jacquard cards, and the machines that cut, lace, stitch and repeat them. It covers hand and power card-cutting, reading boards, hand and mechanical lacing, peg- and lace-hole machines, and ordinary-, medium- and fine-pitch repeating machines. It is heavily illustrated with mechanical line drawings and photographs, plus some design and harness diagrams and a few weave-strip drafts. The volume also has a subject index and period advertisements from Jacquard and loom makers.
Jute and Linen Weaving
Jute and Linen Weaving
Book · 310 pages · weaving drafts
A technical textbook on power-loom weaving of jute and linen, in its second edition (1914), by two Scottish technical-college instructors. It covers yarn counts, reeling and bundling, warp and weft winding, warping, beaming and sizing (including sizing chemicals), drawing-in and reeding, and the loom motions: shedding by tappet, dobby and jacquard, picking, beating up, let-off, take-up, box motions, auxiliary motions, terry towel motions, automatic weft supply and selvages. It is heavily illustrated with mechanical drawings of machinery by makers such as Lupton and Place and Anderston Foundry, and includes calculations for pinions and shotting plus a few pegging and draft diagrams.
The Mechanism of Weaving
The Mechanism of Weaving
Book · 317 pages · weaving drafts
A comprehensive technical treatise by T. W. Fox on the mechanics of power-loom weaving, in its fifth edition (1922, first published 1894). It covers healds, shedding by tappets, dobbies and Jacquards, figuring harnesses, card-cutting and lacing, lappet shedding, picking, multiple box motions, swivel and gauze weaving, reeds, brakes, let-off and take-up motions, temples, and the layout of weaving sheds. The text is heavily illustrated with mechanical line diagrams; weaving drafts and tie-ups appear on only a few pages.
Textile Design
Textile Design
Book · 263 pages · weaving drafts
A comprehensive 1912 textbook on the technical design of woven textiles by two Scottish technical-college instructors. It works through plain, twill and sateen weaves, mock lenos, huckabacks, honeycombs, crêpes, spots, dice and diamond designs, damasks and jacquard mounting. It goes on to compound, backed and double cloths, three-ply and multi-ply fabrics, pile fabrics (velvets, plushes, carpets, terry), Bedford cords and piqués, gauze, leno, lappet and swivel fabrics, and silk picture weaving. The book is heavily illustrated with drawdowns, drafts and weaving plans, plus harness and card-cutting calculations for dobby and jacquard looms. Originally serialized in the Textile Manufacturer, it was aimed at jute and linen weaving and extended to general industrial textile design.
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