Textile design and colour; elementary weaves and figured fabrics (1921)
Watson, William, F.T.I · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 371
ratedat F in Fig. 414, show the appearance of a gimp yarn. Corkscrew Yarn.—Usually consists of a rather hard-twisted fine thread anda soft-twisted thick thread, the former being held tighter than the latter in thedoubhng process, so that the thicker thread is woven spirally round the fine… … F G Fig. 414. Bead Yarn.—Contains hard lumps, like beads, at intervals, while in somecases proper beads on one thread are fixed in position by twisting another threadwith the first thread. Curl or Loop Yarti.—See p. 146 and the thread illustrated at C in Fig. 414.The example is a worsted curl yarn…
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