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Technology of textile design : a practical treatise on the construction and application of weaves for all textile fabrics and the analysis of cloth : containing also an appendix describing all the latest methods and improvements in designing and manufacturing : for the use of students, operatives, overseers, designers, mill managers, commission merchants and manufacturers

Posselt, E. A. (Emanuel Anthony), 1858-1921 · 1905 · Philadelphia : E.A. Posselt ; London : Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., Ltd. · 17 pictures

A 1905 practical treatise by E. A. Posselt, published in Philadelphia and London, written for students, weavers, overseers and designers in the textile trade. Its pictures are technical diagrams of weave structures, with grid-based interlacing charts, fabric peg plans in black and white squares, and cross-sectional drawings of warp threads and harness mechanisms, showing how a designer could read and build a woven pattern from a plan.

Textile design · Textile industry · Weaving

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