Garment dyeing and cleaning : a practical book for practical men (1901)
Hurst, George H · London : C. Griffin & Company, Limited · leaf 13
in Indiaand China. Its fibre is longand silky, and from it is ob-tained nearly all the long stapledvarieties of Indian, Chinese, andEgyptian cottons. The cotton fibre is essentiallya tube of a more or less spiralshape when viewed by means ofa high power microscope (seeFig. 1), which is a drawing… … Fig. 1.—Typical cotton fibres. average length and diameter of various kinds of cotton fibre :— Length of staple 1Diameter of fibre Description of cotton. in inclies. in inches. Min. Max. Min. Max. New Orleans, 0-88 1-16 0-00058() 0 000970 Sea Island (long stapled), 1-41 1-80 0-000460 0-000820…
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