The velvet and corduroy industry; a brief account of the various processes connected with the manufacture of cotton pile goods (1922)
Cooke, J. Herbert · London, New York [etc.] Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd · leaf 52
are formed by the weft picks,and their width is controlled by the counts of reed andby the number of warp threads over which these weftpicks float at varying intervals, according as the resultingpile when cut is intended to be long or short. DiagramC shows the effect of cutting these tunnels or… … to intersect ; in the case of a velvet of the finer class—the patent class (the El twill or plain El)—the pile picksfloat over seven. In the E3 velvet which has quite along pile the weft floats over nine warp threads, and inthe case of the Double Cross Superfine Twill Patent theweft threads float…
Velvet · Cotton manufacture
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