Technology of textile design. Being a practical treatise on the construction and application of weaves for all textile fabrics, with minute reference to the latest inventions for weaving (1888)
Posselt, Emanuel Anthony, 1858- · Philadelphia, Pub. by the author [etc.]; London, S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, limited · leaf 184
Fig. 818. pile. And whatever designs may be required, the principles given and illustrated in the precedingexamples, will always apply, as they remain unchanged. In the method of weaving Astrakhan fabrics, as thus far explained, the raising of the pilehas been effected with the use of wires, over… … Fig. 819. width of the fabric which can be made on them is necessarily limited, as a very long wire cannotbe withdrawn and inserted with precision automatically by the loom. Also, the means foroperating such wires are of a character to prevent rapid weaving; hence it requires a special loomof…
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