The structure of fibres, yarns and fabrics : being a practical treatise for the use of all persons employed in the manufacture of textile fabrics (1891)
Posselt, E. A. (Emanuel Anthony), 1858-1921 · Philadelphia : E.A. Posselt ; London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Ltd. · leaf 87
length in the direction of one axis, but tapering toward each end in the direction of the other. Generally they may be completely severed from each other by gentle abrasion caused by slight pressure and movement of the cover-glass, but very often they separate in bundles or clumps. Here their ar-… … Fig. 120. lars they are comparable to the latter, and with this difference, that when thus treated they are much more pliable. Thus the cells are arranged as shown in Fig. 119, at a. If the portions of the fibre thus under examination have suffered rupture at any point, the fibrous cells are…
Textile fibers · Textile fabrics
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