A complete dictionary of dry goods and history of silk, cotton, linen, wool and other fibrous substances, including a full explanation of the modern processes of spinning, dyeing and weaving, with an appendix containing a treatise on window trimming, German words and phrases, with their English pronunciation and signification, together with various useful tables (1892)
Cole, George S · Chicago : W.B. Conkey company] · leaf 381
378 COLE'S DICTIONARY OF DRY GOODS. WEA cost, to make a fine surface on a fabric of a given weight, to secure addi- tional strength, warmth and wearing powers, or sometimes for the purpose of ornamentation solely, by causing the threads to exchange places and so form figures. In addition to double… … others known as "three-ply," "four-ply," etc., implying that the cloth is not merely a double, but a three or four- fold cloth. It does not always follow, though, that a three or four-ply cloth means that there are three or four
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