Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 371
2915. … it will be seen that when the white threads disappeared at b b, Fig. 2914, they lay unconnected withthe cloth or floated on the surface; and in the same manner the black threads float at e when thewhite threads are being used. In some kinds of figured weaving these floating threads are cut off,as…
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