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Title: Textiles
For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

Author: William H. Dooley

Release Date: December 30, 2007 [eBook #24077]

Language: English

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TEXTILES

For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic
Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those
Engaged in Wholesale and Retail
Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and
Dressmaker's Trades

by

WILLIAM H. DOOLEY
Principal Lowell Industrial School
Lowell, Mass.

Revised Edition
With Experiments

D. C. Heath & Company
Boston New York Chicago

Copyright, 1910, 1912, and 1914, by
D. C. Heath and Company

[Illustration: COTTON PLANT]

PREFACE

The author established and since its inception has been in charge of
the first industrial school for boys and girls in Massachusetts. At an
early date he recognized the need of special text-books to meet the
demand of young people who are attending vocational schools. There are
plenty of books written on textiles for technical school students and
advanced workers. But the author has failed to find a book explaining
the manufacture and testing of textiles for commercial, industrial,
domestic arts, and continuation schools, and for those who have just
entered the textile or allied trades. This book is written to meet
this educational need. Others may f