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Title: Theory Of Silk Weaving

Author: Arnold Wolfensberger

Release Date: January 5, 2005 [EBook #14600]

Language: English

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THEORY OF SILK WEAVING

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THEORY OF SILK WEAVING

A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the
Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and
Jacquard Silk Fabrics

Containing 95 Plates

_By_ ARNOLD WOLFENSBERGER

Graduate of the Textile Institute of Zurich, Switzerland

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Second Revised and Enlarged Edition

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NEW YORK

_Issued by_ THE AMERICAN SILK JOURNAL

CLIFFORD & LAWTON

_Publishers_

_1921_

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COPYRIGHT. 1921. by CLIFFORD & LAWTON

_All rights reserved_

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GROLIER CRAFT PRESS, Printers. 229 West Twenty-eighth Street, New York City

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PREFACE

The silk industry of America has of late years rapidly advanced to the
front rank among the great textile industries of the world. It may indeed
be proud of this position, to which that enterprising spirit and untiring
energy peculiar to our nation, combined with our great technical and
natural resources, has brought it.

That we are, on the other hand, not yet at the height of perfection we are
also compelled to acknowledge, but if we consider the short space of time
that the American industry has required for its development, as compared to
the decades, almost centuries, to which some of the great European silk
centers can look back, the fact is neither s