Colour-matching on textiles : a manual intended for the use of dyers, calico printers, and textile colour chemists, containing coloured frontispiece, twenty-nine illustrations, and fourteen dyed patterns in appendix (1901)
Paterson, David · London : Scott, Greenwood · leaf 78
the microscope, it will be observed that the LUSTRE OF FIBRE. 61 silk has a smooth, shining surface like a rod of glass.The wool is not so smooth as the silk. It possesses a moreuneven surface, and is therefore less lustrous; while thecotton is still more uneven, and shows a rough, twistedfibre,… … Pig. 22.—-Wool fibre under microscope. It will be observed that the smooth surface of the silkfibre, Fig. 21, enables it to form threads all closely parallelto each other, thus producing a surface having a high reflectingpower or lustre. The high lustre of the China grass, or the Khea or…
Color in the textile industries · Dyes and dyeing
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