Faults in the manufacture of woollen goods and their prevention (1903)
Reiser, Nicolas · London : Scott, Greenwood & Co. ; New York : D. Van Nostrand Co. · leaf 25
f the threads and proper spacing. To better explain the matter to readers less well acquainted with the shrinkage of goods in milling, I refer to Fig. 1, where a and b are warp threads. If we take a good material and weave as shown in a, as for cloth, the contraction of the goods for normal spacing… … half as many crossings. Besides every warp and weft thread is bare for twice the distance it is in a, so that it is easier for the threads to ride over one another. In c the warp threads cross over four weft threads consecutively, and in d over seven consecutively with a correspondingly greater and…
Woolen and worsted manufacture · Woolen and worsted weaving
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