Cyclopedia of textile work : a general reference library on cotton, woolen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects (1907)
Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 106
WOOLEN AND WORSTED FINISHING. 81 tion as the cloth travels. The usual practice is to have the nap run from the number end, and, therefore, the number end must come last instead. of first, as on all other machines. … Cropping. It is often necessary in napping, as well as in gigging, to send the goods to the shear when the process is half completed, to have part of the nap sheared off, in. order that ‘the napping wire may be facilitated in reaching the bottom. 89
Textile industry · Textile fabrics · Textile industry -- Encyclopedias · Textile fabrics -- Encyclopedias
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
