The conservation of textiles
A 1921 trade manual on textile care, written by Harvey Gerald Elledge and Alice Lucille Wakefield for the Laundryowners National Association in La Salle, Illinois, aimed at laundry operators. The four photomicrographs show magnified fabric fibres and weaves in circular frames, with a dark stain or damage area cutting through a grid of woven threads. A designer might take the regular weave grids and the frayed, fibrous textures as close-up material studies.
