Cyclopedia of textile work - a general reference library on cotton, woollen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects (1907) (14749745496)

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Title: Cyclopedia of textile work : a general reference library on cotton, woollen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Textile industry Textile fabrics
Publisher: Chicago : American school of correspondence
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth



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duction of these681 dyestuffs. 16 Previous to 1860 39 Between 1860-1870125 1870-1880 261 1880-1S90 240 1890-1902 245 236 TEXTILE CHEMISTRY AND DYEING This number by no means represents all the artificial dye-stujffs. Thousands are upon the market, but examination will showthat many, though sold under entirely different names, are identical.JMalachite Green, for instance, has no less than fifteen differentnames assigned to it by different manufacturers. Many others willbe found to be mixtures of two or more distinct colors. Many dyestuffs have been rendered obsolete by the introduc-tion of newer ones of the same class which are either cheaper orfaster and often both. Many others are discovered but, for somereason, are never put upon the market. Although the number is constantly increasing, and every monthlyreport publishes many new patents, we may safely say that, at thepresent time, there are upon the market not more than fifteen hundreddyestufts that are of different composition. 246
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TEXTILE CALCULATIONS. SIZES OF YARNS —NUMBERING. The sizes of yarns are designated by the terms <r,d, runjmnk,comit, skein, dram, grain, etc., all of which are l)ased upon twoelementary principles, i.e., weight and length. Each term repre-sents a certain length of yarn for a fixed weight, or vice versa;but unfortunately there are different standards of weicrhts andmeasures, which results in a great deal of confusion. The larcrestvariety of terms is found in the woolen industry. In the UnitedStates we have woolen cut, run, grain, etc., when all may bereduced to a common basis. There is no doul)t that the adoptionof an international standard would benefit the textile industry,but which standard to adopt is a question on which manufacturersdisagree. A simple method w^ould be 1,000 metres as the unit of length,to be called count or number, and the number of units which weio-hone kilogram to represent the counts or number of yarn. By thismethod the counts of the yarn would always show