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Colour in woven design (1890)

Beaumont, Roberts, 1862-1924 · London : Whittaker & Co. ; New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 172

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in the positions of the yarns, whereasthe plain make only allows of two. Secondly, each pickfloats over and under two threads at a time, so that the picksat every interlacing cover, or are covered, by both a blackand a white thread. Let it now be shown what is the resultof this. Supposing the first… … Fier. 6. sketched in fig. 6. This pick floats over a black and awhite, and then under a black and a white thread, so thata small transverse line of black is formed equal in length,not to a float over tiw, but three threads, for although theextent of the weft float is two, yet the black thread…

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