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An Introduction to the Study of Textile Design
An Introduction to the Study of Textile Design
Book · 282 pages · weaving drafts
A 1903 technical college textbook on textile design and cloth construction by the head of textile industries at Bradford Municipal Technical College. It covers simple interlacings and drawing flat views and sections, warp preparation, drawing-in and sleying, hand, dobby and power looms, yarn counts and cloth setting calculations, and the designing of weaves on point-paper. Further chapters treat twills, sateens, drafting and pegging plans, colour-and-weave effects, backed and double cloths, lustre goods, and yarn and cloth calculations, with design sheets, plates and photographs throughout. The scan ends with a publisher's catalogue.
Lace-Making in the Midlands Past and Present
Lace-Making in the Midlands Past and Present
Book · 176 pages
A 1900 history and survey of pillow (bobbin) lace-making in the English Midland counties (Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire). It opens with a sketch of lace-making in Europe and its progress in England, then covers the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, lace schools, lace-makers at home and their customs, the decline of the industry, its late-Victorian revival through lace associations, and its condition and prospects. Illustrated with photographs of lace specimens (Greek cut work, Italian, Dutch, Buckinghamshire, Maltese, torchon, modern pillow lace) and line drawings of lace designs. The scan ends with Methuen's publisher's catalogue.

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