Dyer, Elizabeth · Boston, Houghton Mifflin · leaf 86
TEXTILE FABRICS 70 to feel harsher and more like wool. The cotton yarn may be spun by the same method as wool, which makes it fuzzy and more springy than cotton yarn ordinarily is. The yarns may also be woven into the same patterns as some staple wool fabrics, or they may be so constructed as to… … Fig. 14. Plisse or Ripplette (magnified) look and feel of a wool cloth. Any cotton cloth, however, has a more lifeless feel and lacks the natural warmth that one recognizes in an all-wool cloth. If a yarn can be raveled, one can frequently detect the cotton fiber. (See test, p. 38.) How crepe…
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