PART III.--Spinning Animal Raw Materials.
Spinning Carded Woollen Yarn--Finishing Yarn--Worsted Spinning-- Finishing Worsted Yarn--Artificial Wool or Shoddy Spinning--Shoddy and Mungo Manufacture--Spinning Shoddy and other Wool Substitutes-- Spinning Waste Silk--Chappe Silk--Fine Spinning--Index.
=THE TECHNICAL TESTING OF YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS.= With Reference to Official Specifications. Translated from the German of Dr. J. HERZFELD. Second Edition. Sixty-nine Illustrations. 200 pp. Demy 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Yarn Testing.= =Determining the Yarn Number=--=Testing the Length of Yarns=--=Examination of the External Appearance of Yarn=--=Determining the Twist of Yarn and Twist=--=Determination of Tensile Strength and Elasticity=--=Estimating the Percentage of Fat in Yarn=--=Determination of Moisture= (Conditioning)--=Appendix.=
=DECORATIVE AND FANCY TEXTILE FABRICS.= By R. T. LORD. Manufacturers and Designers of Carpets, Damask, Dress and all Textile Fabrics. 200 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. 132 Designs and Illustrations. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics--A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--Hints for Ruled-paper Draughtsmen--The Jacquard Machine--Brussels and Wilton Carpets-- Tapestry Carpets--Ingrain Carpets--Axminster Carpets--Damask and Tapestry Fabrics--Scarf Silks and Ribbons--Silk Handkerchiefs--Dress Fabrics--Mantle Cloths--Figured Plush--Bed Quilts--Calico Printing.
=THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DAMASK WEAVING.= By H. KINZER and K. WALTER. Royal 8vo. Eighteen Plates. Six Illustrations. Translated from the German.
[_In the press._
Contents.
=The Various Sorts of Damask Fabrics=--Drill (Ticking, Handloom-made) --Whole Damask for Tablecloths--Damask with Ground- and Connecting-warp Threads--Furniture Damask--Lampas or Hangings--Church Damasks--=The Manufacture of Whole Damask=--Damask Arrangement with and without Cross-Shedding--The Altered Cone-arrangement--The Principle of the Corner Lifting Cord--The Roller Principle--The Combination of the Jacquard with the so-called Damask Machine--The Special Damask Machine--The Combination of Two Tyings.
=FAULTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN GOODS AND THEIR PREVENTION.= By NICOLAS REISER. Translated from the Second German Edition. Crown 8vo. Sixty-three Illustrations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Improperly Chosen Raw Material or Improper Mixtures--Wrong Treatment of the Material in Washing, Carbonisation, Drying, Dyeing and Spinning-- Improper Spacing of the Goods in the Loom--Wrong Placing of Colours-- Wrong Weight or Width of the Goods--Breaking of Warp and Weft Threads --Presence of Doubles, Singles, Thick, Loose, and too Hard Twisted Threads as well as Tangles, Thick Knots and the Like--Errors in Cross-weaving--Inequalities, _i.e._, Bands and Stripes--Dirty Borders --Defective Selvedges--Holes and Buttons--Rubbed Places--Creases-- Spots--Loose and Bad Colours--Badly Dyed Selvedges--Hard Goods--Brittle Goods--Uneven Goods--Removal of Bands, Stripes, Creases and Spots.
Dyeing, Colour Printing, Matching and Dye-stuffs.
=THE COLOUR PRINTING OF CARPET YARNS.= Manual for Colour Chemists and Textile Printers. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Seventeen Illustrations. 136 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Structure and Constitution of Wool Fibre--Yarn Scouring--Scouring Materials--Water for Scouring--Bleaching Carpet Yarns--Colour Making for Yarn Printing--Colour Printing Pastes--Colour Recipes for Yarn Printing--Science of Colour Mixing--Matching of Colours--"Hank" Printing--Printing Tapestry Carpet Yarns--Yarn Printing--Steaming Printed Yarns--Washing of Steamed Yarns--Aniline Colours Suitable for Yarn Printing--Glossary of Dyes and Dye-wares used in Wood Yarn Printing--Appendix.
=THE SCIENCE OF COLOUR MIXING.= A Manual intended for the use of Dyers, Calico Printers and Colour Chemists. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Forty-one Illustrations, =Five Coloured Plates, and Four Plates showing Eleven Dyed Specimens of Fabrics=. 132 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Colour a Sensation; Colours of Illuminated Bodies; Colours of Opaque and Transparent Bodies; Surface Colour--Analysis of Light; Spectrum; Homogeneous Colours; Ready Method of Obtaining a Spectrum--Examination of Solar Spectrum; The Spectroscope and Its Construction; Colourists' Use of the Spectroscope--Colour by Absorption; Solutions and Dyed Fabrics; Dichroic Coloured Fabrics in Gaslight--Colour Primaries of the Scientist _versus_ the Dyer and Artist; Colour Mixing by Rotation and Lye Dyeing; Hue, Purity, Brightness; Tints; Shades, Scales, Tones, Sad and Sombre Colours--Colour Mixing; Pure and Impure Greens, Orange and Violets; Large Variety of Shades from few Colours; Consideration of the Practical Primaries: Red, Yellow and Blue--Secondary Colours; Nomenclature of Violet and Purple Group; Tints and Shades of Violet; Changes in Artificial Light--Tertiary Shades; Broken Hues; Absorption Spectra of Tertiary Shades--Appendix: Four Plates with Dyed Specimens Illustrating Text--Index.
=COLOUR MATCHING ON TEXTILES.= A Manual intended for the use of Students of Colour Chemistry, Dyeing and Textile Printing. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Coloured Frontispiece. Twenty-nine Illustrations and Fourteen Specimens of Dyed Fabrics. Demy 8vo. 132 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Colour Vision and Structure of the Eye--Perception of Colour--Primary and Complementary Colour Sensations--Daylight for Colour Matching-- Selection of a Good Pure Light--Diffused Daylight, Direct Sunlight, Blue Skylight, Variability of Daylight, etc., etc.--Matching of Hues--Purity and Luminosity of Colours--Matching Bright Hues--Aid of Tinted Films--Matching Difficulties Arising from Contrast--Examination of Colours by Reflected and Transmitted Lights--Effect of Lustre and Transparency of Fibres in Colour Matching--Matching of Colours on Velvet Pile--Optical Properties of Dye-stuffs, Dichroism, Fluorescence --Use of Tinted Mediums--Orange Film--Defects of the Eye--Yellowing of the Lens--Colour Blindness, etc.--Matching of Dyed Silk Trimmings and Linings and Bindings--Its Difficulties--Behaviour of Shades in Artificial Light--Colour Matching of Old Fabrics, etc.--Examination of Dyed Colours under the Artificial Lights--Electric Arc, Magnesium and Dufton, Gardner Lights, Welsbach, Acetylene, etc.--Testing Qualities of an Illuminant--Influence of the Absorption Spectrum in Changes of Hue under the Artificial Lights--Study of the Causes of Abnormal Modifications of Hue, etc.
=COLOUR: A HANDBOOK OF THE THEORY OF COLOUR.= By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. =With Ten Coloured Plates= and Seventy-two Illustrations. 160 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Colour and Its Production.= Light, Colour, Dispersion of White Light, Methods of Producing the Spectrum, Glass Prism and Diffraction Grating Spectroscopes, The Spectrum, Wave Motion of Light, Recomposition of White Light, Hue, Luminosity, Purity of Colours, The Polariscope, Phosphorescence, Fluorescence, Interference--=Cause of Colour in Coloured Bodies.= Transmitted Colours, Absorption Spectra of Colouring Matters--=Colour Phenomena and Theories.= Mixing Colours, White Light from Coloured Lights, Effect of Coloured Light on Colours, Complementary Colours, Young Helmholtz Theory, Brewster Theory, Supplementary Colours, Maxwell's Theory, Colour Photography--=The Physiology of Light.= Structure of the Eye, Persistence of Vision, Subjective Colour Phenomena, Colour Blindness--=Contrast.= Contrast, Simultaneous Contrast, Successive Contrast, Contrast of Tone, Contrast of Colours, Modification of Colours by Contrast, Colour Contrast in Decorative Design--=Colour in Decoration and Design.= Colour Harmonies, Colour Equivalents, Illumination and Colour, Colour and Textile Fabrics, Surface Structure and Colour--=Measurement of Colour.= Colour Patch Method, The Tintometer, Chromometer.
=THE DYEING OF COTTON FABRICS=: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student. By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist and Chemist. 272 pp. Forty-four Illustrations of Bleaching and Dyeing Machinery. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Structure and Chemistry of the Cotton Fibre--Scouring and Bleaching of Cotton--Dyeing Machinery and Dyeing Manipulations--Principles and Practice of Cotton Dyeing--Direct Dyeing; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Metallic Salts; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Developers; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Couplers; Dyeing on Tannic Mordant; Dyeing on Metallic Mordant; Production of Colour Direct upon Cotton Fibres; Dyeing Cotton by Impregnation with Dye-stuff Solution--Dyeing Union (Mixed Cotton and Wool) Fabrics--Dyeing Half Silk (Cotton-Silk, Satin) Fabrics--Operations following Dyeing-- Washing, Soaping, Drying--Testing of the Colour of Dyed Fabrics-- Experimental Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing--Index.
The book contains numerous recipes for the production on Cotton Fabrics of all kinds of a great range of colours.
=THE DYEING OF WOOLLEN FABRICS.= By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist and Chemist. Thirty-three Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 228 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
The Wool Fibre--Structure, Composition and Properties--Processes Preparatory to Dyeing--Scouring and Bleaching of Wool--Dyeing Machinery and Dyeing Manipulations--Loose Wool Dyeing, Yarn Dyeing and Piece Dyeing Machinery--The Principles and Practice of Wool Dyeing--Properties of Wool Dyeing--Methods of Wool Dyeing--Groups of Dyes--Dyeing with the Direct Dyes--Dyeing with Basic Dyes--Dyeing with Acid Dyes--Dyeing with Mordant Dyes--Level Dyeing--Blacks on Wool--Reds on Wool--Mordanting of Wool--Orange Shades on Wool--Yellow Shades on Wool--Green Shades on Wool--Blue Shades on Wool--Violet Shades on Wool--Brown Shades on Wool--Mode Colours on Wool--Dyeing Union (Mixed Cotton Wool) Fabrics --Dyeing of Gloria--Operations following Dyeing--Washing, Soaping, Drying--Experimental Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing--Testing of the Colour of Dyed Fabrics--Index.
=DYERS' MATERIALS=: An Introduction to the Examination, Evaluation and Application of the most important Substances used in Dyeing, Printing, Bleaching and Finishing. By PAUL HEERMAN, Ph.D. Translated from the German by. A. C. WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Twenty-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 150 pp. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
_Indicators_--_Standard Solutions_--_Solutions and Reagents in General Use_--_Water_--_Textile Fibres_--_Hydrochloric Acid_--_Chlorides_-- _Fluorides and Bifluorides_--_Sulphuric Acid_--_Sulphates_--_Nitric Acid and Nitrates_--_Chlorine-Oxygen Compounds_--_Sulphite Compounds_ --_Miscellaneous Compounds_--_Alkalies_--_Peroxides_--_Zinc Dust_-- _Fatty Acids and Their Salts_--_Cyanogen Compounds_--_Derivatives of the Fats_--_Tannins_--_Aniline and Aniline Salts_--_Thickening and Stiffening Materials_: Starch, Prepared and Soluble Starch, Dextrine, Gum Arabic, Gum Senegal, Gum Tragacanth, Glue, Size--_Dyes_--Appendix: Atomic Weights of the Elements--Molecular Weights of Certain Compounds--Gravimetric Equivalents--Volumetric Equivalents--Plate I., Microscopic Appearance of the Textile Fibres--Plate II., Microscopic Appearance of the Different Varieties of Starch--Index.
Reissue of
=THE ART OF DYEING WOOL, SILK AND COTTON.= Translated from the French of M. HELLOT, M. MACQUER and M. LE PILEUR D'APLIGNY. First Published in English in 1789. Six Plates. Demy 8vo. 446 pp. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.