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Design texts : a practical treatise on textile design, cloth construction, fabric analysis and calculations

Umpleby, Fenwick · 1910 · Lowell, Mass. : Lawler Printing Co. · 91 pictures

A 1910 technical manual on textile design, cloth construction and fabric analysis by Fenwick Umpleby, printed in Lowell, Massachusetts for mill hands and weaving students. Its plates are point-paper weave diagrams: gridded squares filled solid black, hatched or left blank to plot twills, satins and checks, offering ready-made modular grid patterns and numbered draft notation.

Textile design · Textile industry · Textile fabrics

Internet Archive · UMass Dartmouth, Claire T. Carney Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0