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, E. A. (Emanuel Anthony), 1858-1921 · Philadelphia, Pub. by the author [etc.]; London, S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, limited · leaf 269
he threads in one system are harder twisted than in the other, the hard-twisted threadsare generally the warp system. If the sample submitted for analyzing has what is technically known as a face-finish(kersey, beaver, doeskin, broadcloth, etc.), the direction of the nap indicates the warp. The… … If the fabric has cotton yarn for one system of threads and woolen for the other (as in unionfabrics), the cotton yarn is generally the warp jarn. If in the sample submitted for analysis the one system of threads is found to ha\-e been sizedor starched, and not the other, the former is the warp. If…
Textile design · Textile fabrics
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