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. Containing also an appendix showing the analysis and giving the calculations necessary for the manufacture of the various textile fabrics (1889)
Posselt, E. A. (Emanuel Anthony), 1858-1921 · Philadelphia, Pub. by the author [etc.]; London, S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, limited · leaf 265
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… … Fig. 1009. 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 yarn. If in the sample submitted for analysis the one system of threads is found to have been sizedor starched, and not the other, the former is…
Textile fabrics
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