Garment dyeing and cleaning : a practical book for practical men (1901)
Hurst, George H · London : C. Griffin & Company, Limited · leaf 19
s of the long silky fibres, the latter of the shorterand more tangled fibres. PROPERTIES.—Linen, like cotton, consists essentially ofcellulose. The ultimate fibres ol flax vary from 0-75 to 1-25inch in length and from 0-00048 to 0-00104 inch in diameter;the latter is, however, exceedingly uniform… … THE TECHNOLOGY OP THE TEXTILE FIBRES. 9 scope the flax fibre is seen to have the form of long cylindricaltubes terminating in a cone at each end ; the cell walls are very-thick, so that the central tube usually only shows itself as athin black line. At intervals the fibres are slightly…
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