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Title: Technology of textile design. Being a practical treatise on the construction and application of weaves for all textile fabrics, with minute reference to the latest inventions for weaving. Containing also an appendix showing the analysis and giving the calculations necessary for the manufacture of the various textile fabrics
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Posselt, E. A. (Emanuel Anthony), 1858-1921
Subjects: Textile fabrics
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pub. by the author (etc.) London, S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, limited
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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fringe being slightlywider than the width of two pendants;the spaces and pendants alternating inthe fringe. A represents two fringes consist-ing of the heads a a and pendants b b.The spaces cc between each two pairsbeing slightly wider than the width ofa pair. The fabric of which the fringesare formed consists of a body, B, andtwo heads, a a. In weaving the fringe fabric acord d is thrown into the body at inter-vals as temporary weft, after the pre-viously explained method of formingsingle set chenille-fringe fabrics.Two shuttles are employed for the headsa a, one for each head. The threads efrom the two shuttles for the heads areseparately woven with the warps a a\ employed for these heads, thus producing two heads,and threads e are alternately and at intervals shot past the heads into and across the body,and woven with the warps d thereof, so as to bind the portions of the body, which afterwardconstitute the axes or cores of the pendants of the fringe, it being noticed that the two
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163 woven heads are alternately connected with the body by such threads e as are shot into the bodyat intervals. The cord d is woven only with the warps d of the body, and is introduced thereinalternately with the filling e, as shown. When the fabric is finished, the body is cut throughbetween the cords d, midway between the fillings e, as usual in making chenille fringe, thus

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