Spinning and weaving calculations : with special reference to woollen fabrics (1904)
Reiser, Nicolas · London : Scott, Greenwood and Co. ; New York : D. Van Nostrand Co. · leaf 113
the two is, therefore, 12 : 10, 22- X 12 and the count of the test yarn is ^ = 27, i.e., the yarn is either a No. 27 singles or No. 54:/2's. Example 2. — In comparing two other yarns we find 7 ends of the one under examination are equal in thickness to 12 ends of No. 52/2's, or 26 singles.… … Fig. 23. since single yarns are not usually so tightly twisted as doubled ones, especially in the case of slack-twisted wefts. The foregoing test will give more rehable results, provided the ends taken are twisted very tightly together. Suppose 6 ends of the singles yarn under examination give the…
Textile industry · Textile fabrics · Woolen and worsted manufacture
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