Humidity in cotton spinning : a paper
This 1894 paper by B. A. Dobson, printed in Bolton by G. S. Heaton, is a technical treatise on how moisture in the air affects cotton spinning, written for mill engineers and spinners. Its plates are close photographic and drawn studies of cotton fibres, with dark vertical bands of yarn or sliver and tangled loose fibres, which a designer might take as raw material for textures of fibrous, hairlike strands set against pale grounds.
