Contents.
=Power-Loom Weaving in General.= Various Systems of Looms--=Mounting and Starting the Power-Loom.= English Looms--Tappet or Treadle Looms --Dobbies--=General Remarks on the Numbering, Reeling and Packing of Yarn=--=Appendix=--=Useful Hints.= Calculating Warps--Weft Calculations--Calculations of Cost Price in Hanks.
=TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS AND THEIR CONVERSION INTO YARNS.= (The Study of the Raw Materials and the Technology of the Spinning Process.) By JULIUS ZIPSER. Translated from German by CHARLES SALTER. 302 Ill.u.s.trations. 500 pp. Demy 8vo.
1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
PART I.--The Raw Materials Used in the Textile Industry.
MINERAL RAW MATERIALS. VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. ANIMAL RAW MATERIALS.
PART II.--The Technology of Spinning or the Conversion of Textile Raw Materials into Yarn.
SPINNING VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. Cotton Spinning--Installation of a Cotton Mill--Spinning Waste Cotton and Waste Cotton Yarns--Flax Spinning--Fine Spinning--Tow Spinning--Hemp Spinning--Spinning Hemp Tow String--Jute Spinning--Spinning Jute Line Yarn--Utilising Jute Waste.
PART III.--Spinning Animal Raw Materials.
Spinning Carded Woollen Yarn--Finishing Yarn--Worsted Spinning-- Finishing Worsted Yarn--Artificial Wool or Shoddy Spinning--Shoddy and Mungo Manufacture--Spinning Shoddy and other Wool Subst.i.tutes-- Spinning Waste Silk--Chappe Silk--Fine Spinning--Index.
=THE TECHNICAL TESTING OF YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS.= With Reference to Official Specifications. Translated from the German of Dr. J. HERZFELD. Second Edition. Sixty-nine Ill.u.s.trations. 200 pp. Demy 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Yarn Testing.= =Determining the Yarn Number=--=Testing the Length of Yarns=--=Examination of the External Appearance of Yarn=--=Determining the Twist of Yarn and Twist=--=Determination of Tensile Strength and Elasticity=--=Estimating the Percentage of Fat in Yarn=--=Determination of Moisture= (Conditioning)--=Appendix.=
=DECORATIVE AND FANCY TEXTILE FABRICS.= By R. T. LORD.
Manufacturers and Designers of Carpets, Damask, Dress and all Textile Fabrics. 200 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. 132 Designs and Ill.u.s.trations. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics--A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--Hints for Ruled-paper Draughtsmen--The Jacquard Machine--Brussels and Wilton Carpets-- Tapestry Carpets--Ingrain Carpets--Axminster Carpets--Damask and Tapestry Fabrics--Scarf Silks and Ribbons--Silk Handkerchiefs--Dress Fabrics--Mantle Cloths--Figured Plush--Bed Quilts--Calico Printing.
=THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DAMASK WEAVING.= By H. KINZER and K.
WALTER. Royal 8vo. Eighteen Plates. Six Ill.u.s.trations.
Translated from the German.
[_In the press._
Contents.
=The Various Sorts of Damask Fabrics=--Drill (Ticking, Handloom-made) --Whole Damask for Tablecloths--Damask with Ground- and Connecting-warp Threads--Furniture Damask--Lampas or Hangings--Church Damasks--=The Manufacture of Whole Damask=--Damask Arrangement with and without Cross-Shedding--The Altered Cone-arrangement--The Principle of the Corner Lifting Cord--The Roller Principle--The Combination of the Jacquard with the so-called Damask Machine--The Special Damask Machine--The Combination of Two Tyings.
=FAULTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN GOODS AND THEIR PREVENTION.= By NICOLAS REISER. Translated from the Second German Edition. Crown 8vo. Sixty-three Ill.u.s.trations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Improperly Chosen Raw Material or Improper Mixtures--Wrong Treatment of the Material in Washing, Carbonisation, Drying, Dyeing and Spinning-- Improper s.p.a.cing of the Goods in the Loom--Wrong Placing of Colours-- Wrong Weight or Width of the Goods--Breaking of Warp and Weft Threads --Presence of Doubles, Singles, Thick, Loose, and too Hard Twisted Threads as well as Tangles, Thick Knots and the Like--Errors in Cross-weaving--Inequalities, _i.e._, Bands and Stripes--Dirty Borders --Defective Selvedges--Holes and b.u.t.tons--Rubbed Places--Creases-- Spots--Loose and Bad Colours--Badly Dyed Selvedges--Hard Goods--Brittle Goods--Uneven Goods--Removal of Bands, Stripes, Creases and Spots.
Dyeing, Colour Printing, Matching and Dye-stuffs.
=THE COLOUR PRINTING OF CARPET YARNS.= Manual for Colour Chemists and Textile Printers. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S.
Seventeen Ill.u.s.trations. 136 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Structure and Const.i.tution of Wool Fibre--Yarn Scouring--Scouring Materials--Water for Scouring--Bleaching Carpet Yarns--Colour Making for Yarn Printing--Colour Printing Pastes--Colour Recipes for Yarn Printing--Science of Colour Mixing--Matching of Colours--"Hank"
Printing--Printing Tapestry Carpet Yarns--Yarn Printing--Steaming Printed Yarns--Washing of Steamed Yarns--Aniline Colours Suitable for Yarn Printing--Glossary of Dyes and Dye-wares used in Wood Yarn Printing--Appendix.
=THE SCIENCE OF COLOUR MIXING.= A Manual intended for the use of Dyers, Calico Printers and Colour Chemists. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Forty-one Ill.u.s.trations, =Five Coloured Plates, and Four Plates showing Eleven Dyed Specimens of Fabrics=. 132 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Colour a Sensation; Colours of Illuminated Bodies; Colours of Opaque and Transparent Bodies; Surface Colour--a.n.a.lysis of Light; Spectrum; h.o.m.ogeneous Colours; Ready Method of Obtaining a Spectrum--Examination of Solar Spectrum; The Spectroscope and Its Construction; Colourists"
Use of the Spectroscope--Colour by Absorption; Solutions and Dyed Fabrics; Dichroic Coloured Fabrics in Gaslight--Colour Primaries of the Scientist _versus_ the Dyer and Artist; Colour Mixing by Rotation and Lye Dyeing; Hue, Purity, Brightness; Tints; Shades, Scales, Tones, Sad and Sombre Colours--Colour Mixing; Pure and Impure Greens, Orange and Violets; Large Variety of Shades from few Colours; Consideration of the Practical Primaries: Red, Yellow and Blue--Secondary Colours; Nomenclature of Violet and Purple Group; Tints and Shades of Violet; Changes in Artificial Light--Tertiary Shades; Broken Hues; Absorption Spectra of Tertiary Shades--Appendix: Four Plates with Dyed Specimens Ill.u.s.trating Text--Index.
=COLOUR MATCHING ON TEXTILES.= A Manual intended for the use of Students of Colour Chemistry, Dyeing and Textile Printing. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Coloured Frontispiece.
Twenty-nine Ill.u.s.trations and Fourteen Specimens of Dyed Fabrics. Demy 8vo. 132 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Colour Vision and Structure of the Eye--Perception of Colour--Primary and Complementary Colour Sensations--Daylight for Colour Matching-- Selection of a Good Pure Light--Diffused Daylight, Direct Sunlight, Blue Skylight, Variability of Daylight, etc., etc.--Matching of Hues--Purity and Luminosity of Colours--Matching Bright Hues--Aid of Tinted Films--Matching Difficulties Arising from Contrast--Examination of Colours by Reflected and Transmitted Lights--Effect of l.u.s.tre and Transparency of Fibres in Colour Matching--Matching of Colours on Velvet Pile--Optical Properties of Dye-stuffs, Dichroism, Fluorescence --Use of Tinted Mediums--Orange Film--Defects of the Eye--Yellowing of the Lens--Colour Blindness, etc.--Matching of Dyed Silk Tr.i.m.m.i.n.gs and Linings and Bindings--Its Difficulties--Behaviour of Shades in Artificial Light--Colour Matching of Old Fabrics, etc.--Examination of Dyed Colours under the Artificial Lights--Electric Arc, Magnesium and Dufton, Gardner Lights, Welsbach, Acetylene, etc.--Testing Qualities of an Illuminant--Influence of the Absorption Spectrum in Changes of Hue under the Artificial Lights--Study of the Causes of Abnormal Modifications of Hue, etc.
=COLOUR: A HANDBOOK OF THE THEORY OF COLOUR.= By GEORGE H.
HURST, F.C.S. =With Ten Coloured Plates= and Seventy-two Ill.u.s.trations. 160 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Colour and Its Production.= Light, Colour, Dispersion of White Light, Methods of Producing the Spectrum, Gla.s.s Prism and Diffraction Grating Spectroscopes, The Spectrum, Wave Motion of Light, Recomposition of White Light, Hue, Luminosity, Purity of Colours, The Polariscope, Phosph.o.r.escence, Fluorescence, Interference--=Cause of Colour in Coloured Bodies.= Transmitted Colours, Absorption Spectra of Colouring Matters--=Colour Phenomena and Theories.= Mixing Colours, White Light from Coloured Lights, Effect of Coloured Light on Colours, Complementary Colours, Young Helmholtz Theory, Brewster Theory, Supplementary Colours, Maxwell"s Theory, Colour Photography--=The Physiology of Light.= Structure of the Eye, Persistence of Vision, Subjective Colour Phenomena, Colour Blindness--=Contrast.= Contrast, Simultaneous Contrast, Successive Contrast, Contrast of Tone, Contrast of Colours, Modification of Colours by Contrast, Colour Contrast in Decorative Design--=Colour in Decoration and Design.= Colour Harmonies, Colour Equivalents, Illumination and Colour, Colour and Textile Fabrics, Surface Structure and Colour--=Measurement of Colour.= Colour Patch Method, The Tintometer, Chromometer.
=THE DYEING OF COTTON FABRICS=: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student. By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist and Chemist. 272 pp. Forty-four Ill.u.s.trations of Bleaching and Dyeing Machinery. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.