Textile raw materials and their conversion into yarns : (the study of the raw materials and the technology of the spinning process) a text-book for textile, trade and higher technical schools, as also for self-instruction ; based upon the ordinary syllabus and curriculum of the Imperial and Royal Austrian weaving schools (1901)
Zipser, Julius, Salter, Charles · London : Scott, Greenwood · leaf 17
ness,develop into a three- to five-lobed brownish capsule (cotton lO TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS. boll) about as large as a walnut. Each lobe contains threeto eight dark brown, greenish or black seeds about the size ofa pea, the seed hairs of which, in course of their development,burst the boll and… … Fig. I.—Saw-gin (section). Ginning.—As the bolls enclose the seeds—which make upabout 70 per cent, of the total weight—it would be irrationalto pack the cotton for shipment without having been cleaned.Consequently it is ginned, or freed from the seed, at theplantation, by passing it through ginning…
Textile fibers · Spinning
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