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 223
in the many handicraftmachines invented long ago. When the wife of the weaver wound herhusbands pirns, she hung her hank of yarns on a frame calledswifts. On a tall post with four feet a pair of movable brackets werefixed the length of the hank apart. Within the brackets were littlebarrel frames,… … <^._._.ji!iiisir/ DOUBLING AND TWISTING 173 to the fingers of the winder. The inventor took those swifts andput them into both a reehng and winding machine. For every hank there is a separate pair of swifts, and these are hungon swing brackets capable of being fixed to any length of hank.…
Textile industry · Textile fabrics
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