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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 386

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COLE'S DICTIONARY OF DRY GOODS. WEA bustion is comparatively poor and costly. In many of the weaving de- partments of mills built years ago and poorly windowed, the constant use of gas or oil for lighting purposes so overheats the air that the ordinary oper- … LIGHT RUNNING SILK LOOM. ator loses physical vigor. In a wide mill, with high stories, the windows must necessarily be large in order to secure good natural light, occupying at least 40 per cent, of the side walls, and leaving but little width of the

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