A manual for managers, designers, weavers : and all others connected with the manufacture of textile fabrics : containing definitions, derivations, and explanations of technical terms, the use made of many substances, rules, tables, and some elementary instructions for beginners (1881)
Spitzli, Alfred · West Troy, N.Y., A. & A.F. Spitzli · leaf 85
when under consideration, unless reversed as above directed. The reversing is an obvious precaution after one has observed how much easier a filling thread comes out with the nap than against it. Fourth — Make a straight cut from D to F ; this should be in the third pattern from the cut corner. To… … Note. — The engraver has failed to be systematic in his work. The cut D E F should be in the same place in all three figures at the beginning of the third pattern ; it need not be so wide, or always so long. In No. 3 the marked threads are not represented as regular as they ought to be. Fifth —…
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