A Practical Treatise on Weaving and Designing of Textile Fabrics. Contains chapters on the principles of construction of the loom, calculations, and colour along with around three hundred and eighty illustrations. Originally published in 1879. Many of the earliest books on weaving, textiles and needlework, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.The rise and progress of the textile manufacturers of this country have, within the last century, been something marvelous, and the products of the loom have been no small degree contributed to the wealth of the nation. Yet it is remarkable that this art possesses fewer works or treatises than any other of the arts or manufactures of this country. The study of this volume should assist the student in any degree in mastering the details of his craft. The aim has been to reduce the whole art of weaving and designing of textile fabrics to simple principles, and to lay them before the reader in brief and consice a form as possible, with just sufficient illustrations to make the matter clear and intelligible, and free it from ambiguity which frequently characterises works of this description.

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Weaving and Designing of Textile Fabrics: With Chapters on the Principles of Construction of the Loom, Calculations and Colour The manufacture Of worsted is supposed by some to have preceded that of woollen, and in support of this the writer Of the article in Rees' Cyclopaedia says the long stapled wool suited to the comb seems more spontaneously the produce Of uncultivated sheep than short wool, which is to be manufactured by carding. Some writers suppose the Argali species to be the original sheep. Prof. Archer says, The fact that the sheep has been so long domesticated, has caused it to be a matter Of uncertainty whether it has been derived from any Of the existing animals Of the genus 0712's. Many have entertained the opinion that it is the same animal as the Argali, 0722's Ammon, Linn., a native of the mountains of Central Asia, and a great weight of evidence in favour Of that supposition is obtained from the circumstance, that all the tribes Of people who have from time immemorial dwelt on the plains surrounding those mountains have always been pastoral in their habits and occupations. Still, however, there is no positive proof that our sheep was derived either from the Argali or any other known wild species, and the probability has been much lessened by the recent discoveries Of the remains Of sheep, mingled with stone weapons of a people who existed under such different conditions Of the earth's surface, that we may assume with as much probability that they were the progenitors Of the Asiatics, as that the latter were their ancestors. And Dr. Carpenter, in his Zoology, says the Argali is not the original sheep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.