Cotton manufacture: a manual of practical instruction in the processes of opening, carding, combing, drawing, doubling, and spinning of cotton, and the methods of dyeing and preparing goods for the market (1894)
Lister, John, 1920- · London, C. Lockwood · leaf 180
changing their 165 i66 COTTON MANUFACTURE. weft by hand, notably the Spitalfields silk and Dewsbury carpetweavers. Any one observing the action of these weavers in fabri-cating their cloths would at once see, by their dexterity in changingcolours without stopping the motion, that the fly shuttle… … Fig. s6.—Calico Loom. means the selvages are clean and almost equal to the edge of aknife; the looping is scarcely visible, and in silk goods this is oneof the principal features in connection with a well-made cloth. Amodern calico loom is shown in Fig. 56. Dividend for Picks.—On new looms it is…
Cotton manufacture
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