Textile Processes; A Collection of Essays on Processes in Woolen, Worsted and Cotton Manufacturing - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... WOOLEN AND WORSTED WEAVING. ESSAY NO. 39. In the production of woolen and worsted cloths smartness, strength, solidity and firmness are among the most important characteristics desired. In these days of keen competition great risks are often run by constructing cloths in a cheap and inferior way, resulting in tender goods and heavy financial claims, which, by the consideration of the above-mentioned particulars, might have been easily avoided. Perhaps the class of materials used in the manufacture of cloth is the most important of all. The wool or other raw product from which the yarn is made should be sound and strong, not necessarily fine, but more particularly firm and durable, capable of resisting an ordinary amount of wear and tear. In constructing a fabric, equally sound material should be used in the weft as in the warp, but when the exigencies of the market will not allow this, the stronger yarn should be used for the warp and the inferior for the weft or filling. While this is a practice which may be resorted to in case of necessity, it is not one which is to be taken undue advantage of, as should there be too great a difference in the strength of the materials used, the cloth produced might be strong warp way and very tender weft way. Divers methods are, of course, in vogue in making cheap and durable cloths, such as using two-fold warp with single weft, or by backing the cloth in the warp or weft way with an inferior material, the appearance of the fabric on the face remaining to all intents and purposes the same. The principal part of every cloth should always be of a sound, strong material, capable of joining the groundwork of the fabric into which the inferior threads (if it is necessary to introduce any) may be interlaced. Another very important p...

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