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 391
slin thirty-six inches wide, and the heavy drill thirty inches wide, each weighing from two and three-fourths to three yards to the pound is about one and one-fourth cents per yard. To weave the finest sheeting and muslins the cost is two to three cents per yard. This is the cost of the mill labor… … FANCY COTTON LOOM. Weft. The woof or filling of cloth. The threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage. Whalebone. The inaccurate term applied to the horny blades which take the place of teeth in the mouths of balaena whales. These blades are from three to twelve and fifteen feet long, and…
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