Decorative and fancy textile fabrics : with designs and illustrations (1898)
Lord, R. T · London : Scott, Greenwood & Son ; New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 78
stration. The black, brown, gold and red could be full frames, that is, 256 bobbins of each colour would be used, and thus each would be employed through- out the full width of the fabric. But with the blue and green it would be different. These two colours must be " planted," which means that,… … Fig. 40. that the darkest and the second drabs (the hghter being employed for the ground) do not run in line, but are parallel with each other. In order that this may be clearly understood, an illustra- tion is given in Fig, 40, which shows how these two colours are planted. The crosses indicate…
Textile design · Textile fabrics
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