The textile fibres of commerce. A handbook on the occurrence, distribution, preparation, and uses of the animal, vegetable, and mineral fibres used in cotton, woollen, paper, silk, brush, and hat manufactures (1902)
Hannan, William I · London : C. Griffin · leaf 34
erial with cotton fibres and to spin them into a uniform composite yarn. A Lancashire firm of spinners who tried this as an experiment did not follow it up to a successful issue. The blending of the bastose and plumose fibres to make one complete yarn is not feasible to begin with. Cotton fibres… … Fig. 7. — Mountain flax, Linum catharticum. tenacity and fineness. When the stems have been partly retted they are put into crates and immersed in the sluggish stream of the Lys ; it is of good staple before spinning. "Flax" and "codilla" are names given to the waste or broken fibres of flax during…
Textile fabrics
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