ARTIFICIAL SILK ITS MANUFACTURE AND USES
Written by Thomas Woodhouse
Published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.
in 1927
ARTIFICIAL SILK ITS MANUFACTURE AND USES
Written by Thomas Woodhouse.
Stock no. 561509
1st.
1927.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Red-brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis. B/w photos. Corners bumped. Foxing to front endpapers and textblock. Page corner tips creased.
Front cover
Contents
- Introductory
- A Brief History of the Evolution of Artifical Silk
- Raw Materials and Their Treatment
- Commercial Varieties of Artifical Silk and their Constituents
- Filament or Thread Making
- Processes Involved in the Manufacture of Viscose Artifical Silk Threads
- Reeling and Drying the Threads
- The Utilization or Artificial Silk Yarn for Hand-Knitted and Machine Knitted Articles
- Bottle Bobbin Winding - Knitting by Hand and Machine
- Preparing the Yarns for the Loom
- Drawing-In, Reeding, Weft Winding and Weaving
- Index