Cotton Weaving and Designing 6th Edition

The three principal movements in weaving are shedding, picking, and beating up the weft. By shedding is meant opening the warp threads to allow the shuttle containing the weft t...

Thus in 1 lb. of 30’s yarn there will be 840 × 30 = 25,200 yards, and the yards in a pound of any count may be found in the same manner.

The simplest form of interlacing the threads is the plain or tabby weave. In this weave the threads intersect as often as possible, and thus the greatest possible amount of firm...

The Jacquard machine was the invention of a Frenchman of that name, who exhibited the machine about the year 1800. It was introduced into this country about twenty years later....

Yarn intended for manufacture into cloth requires to pass through various stages of preparation, the character of which depends upon the class of fabrics to be produced. Thus, s...

In figured fabrics it is most important that the distribution of the parts of the figure should be such that the eye is not attracted by lines formed by the unequal distribution...

The history of the development of the power-loom, from its inception by Dr. Cartwright, has been written on many occasions. That story relates how old methods have been improved...

Where more than one kind or colour of weft is used in a fabric, it is, of course, necessary to change the shuttles automatically. Sometimes two or more different counts of weft...

The word “leno” has latterly become a general term given to all classes of cross weaving. Originally it had a different meaning to gauze, but the word is now often applied to ga...

Terry looms are extensively used in the cotton trade, chiefly for weaving towels, but often for striped dress and similar fabrics where terry or loop pile is combined with other...

The tappet shedding motion is the simplest and most perfect for a small number of shafts. They may be made to work an indefinite number of shafts, but it is seldom that above ei...

When two or more pieces are woven in one width and afterwards cut or torn apart, if there are not a few leno ends to divide each piece the warp threads have nothing to stop them...