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 79
e character of the yarn, whether elastic, stiff or hard. Let us examine Figs. 10 and 11, in which K indicates the warp and S the weft yarn. In Fig. 10 the warp appears to be only very slightly bent. This is the case when the warp material is hard and inelastic,, or when the warp tension is high, or… … Pig. 11. that hard warps contract very little when woven along with soft and elastic wefts and furnish a greater length of fabric, whereas soft warps contract more in presence of hard and stiff wefts, and, therefore, yield a shorter length of fabric. Fig. 11 represents the antithesis of Fig. 10,…
Textile industry · Textile fabrics · Woolen and worsted manufacture
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