bies -- #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
Illustrations. 500 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, 11s.
home; 11s. 6d. abroad.)

#Contents.#

#PART 1. -- 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 Substitutes --
Spinning Waste Silk -- Chappe Silk -- Fine Spinning -- Index.

#GRAMMAR OF TEXTILE DESIGN.# By H. NISBET, Weaving and Designing Master,
Bolton Municipal Technical School. Demy 8vo. 280 pp. 490 Illustrations
and Diagrams. Price 6s. net. (Post free, 6s. 10d. home; 7s. abroad.)

#Contents.#

Chapter I., INTRODUCTION. -- General Principle of Fabric Structure and
the use of Design Paper.

Chapter II., THE PLAIN WEAVE AND ITS MODIFICATIONS. -- #The Plain,
Calico, or Tabby Weave#. -- Firmness of Texture -- Variety of Texture
-- Variety of Form: Ribbed Fabrics -- Corded Fabrics -- Matt Weaves.

Chapter III., TWILL AND KINDRED WEAVES. -- Classification of Twill
Weaves. -- #1. Continuous Twills# -- (_a_) _Warp-face Twills_ -- (_b_)
_Weft-face Twills_ -- (_c_) _Warp and Weft-face Twills_ -- The Angle
of Twill -- Influences affecting the Prominence of Twills and Kindred
Weaves (_a_) _Character of Weave_, (_b_) _Character of Yarn_, (_c_)
_Number of Threads per Inch_, (_d_) _Direction of Twill in Relation to
the Direction of Twist in Yarn_ -- #2. Zigzag or Wavy Twills# -- 3.
#Rearranged Twills#: Satin Weaves -- Table of Intervals of Selection for
the Construction of