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Theory of silk weaving; a treatise on the construction and application of weaves, and decomposition and calculation of silk fabrics ..

Wolfensberger, Arnold. [from old catalog] · 1896 · New York, The American silk journal co. · 57 pictures

A technical manual on silk weave construction, drafting and fabric calculation, written by Arnold Wolfensberger and published by the American Silk Journal Co. in New York in 1896 for mill designers and weavers. The plates are point-paper weave diagrams: ruled grids filled with black and orange squares forming twills, diagonals, checks and repeat blocks, usable as modular pattern fields.

Silk industry · Weaving

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