The textile industries : a practical guide to fibres, yarns & fabrics in every branch of textile manufacture, including preparation of fibres, spinning, doubling, designing, weaving, bleaching, printing, dyeing and finishing (1910)
Murphy, William S · London : The Gresham Publishing Company · leaf 210
allow the former to wrap roundthe latter by causing it to be delivered at a faster rate. A greaterlength of silk being given out, it must twist itself round the worstedthread, and so enwrap it. For such a yarn we require two sets ofdelivering rollers on the frame, the one set running faster than… … is... FANCY YARNS(J. Sykes & Sons, Ltd., Huddersfield) DOUBLING AND TWISTING 163 Knopps.—From the scientific spinners point of view all fancy yarnsare defective yarns; they are, in literal fact, accidental defects mouldedinto uniformity and artistic symmetry. The knopp is a fair example ofthis.…
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