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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 166

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Sleying is therefore a straightforward opera-tion on the loom we are studying, consisting of passing every successivepair of threads through each dent or opening in the reed or sley. Inpatterned cloths the sley has a very important function to discharge;but that part and the details belonging to it… … 128 WEAVING function of the reed is to beat up the weft thread close between thecrossed threads of the warp. It would be very difficult to imaginea more suitable instrument, with all its defects, because the spacesfrom warp end to warp end are very small, and the reed must notwiden them. At least…

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