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Dressings and finishings for textile fabrics and their application; description of all the materials used in dressing textiles

Polleyn, Friedrich, Salter, Charles · 1911 · London, Scott, Greenwood · 43 pictures

A technical manual on textile dressing and finishing compounds, written by Friedrich Polleyn and translated by Charles Salter, published in London by Scott, Greenwood in 1911 for mill managers, finishers and chemists. The plates are line engravings of factory machinery in elevation and section: kettles on cast legs, calenders, belt-driven drums, pulleys, valves and screw agitators, all keyed with italic letters and numbers, giving designers clean mechanical diagrams, gear and pulley motifs, and lettered callout conventions.

Textile finishing

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