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Technology of textile design. Being a practical treatise on the construction and application of weaves for all textile fabrics, with minute reference to the latest inventions for weaving. Containing also an appendix showing the analysis and giving the calculations necessary for the manufacture of the various textile fabrics

Posselt, E. A. (Emanuel Anthony), 1858-1921 · 1889 · Philadelphia, Pub. by the author [etc.]; London, S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, limited · 181 pictures

A technical manual on weaving and cloth construction written and published by Emanuel Anthony Posselt in Philadelphia in 1889, for mill designers, loom operators and textile students. Wood-engraved machine portraits of looms, dobbies and belt hangers sit beside black-and-white weave diagrams, draft grids and thread-path schematics useful as pattern fills, gridded ornament or industrial line art.

Textile fabrics

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