Directory of Yarn Spinning Resources

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This category lists on-line historical books and publications related to yarn manufacturing.

Resources in This Category

• Cotton Manufacturing. Part I

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pea_ctn1_1.pdf
  First part of a complete illustrated description of the manufacture of cotton yarns written in 1903 by E.A. Posselt, about cotton cultivation, harvesting, ginning and mixing, including descriptions of the construction of cotton ginning and cleaning machinery.

• Cotton Manufacturing. Part II

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pea_ctn1_2.pdf
  Second part of a complete illustrated description of the manufacture of cotton yarns written in 1903 by E.A. Posselt, describing preparatory processes prior to carding, carding technology, machinery and machine settings, and sliver forming prior to combing.

• Kinks on Worsted Combing, Drawing and Spinning

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/kinks_4.pdf
  Reference book about worsted combing, drawing and yarn spinning, compiled from the questions and answers department of the Textile World Record. Published in 1911. Edited by Clarence Hutton.

• Textile Calculations

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pea_calc.pdf
  Guide to calculations relating to the construction of yarns and fabrics, including methods for the analysis of cloth. Published early 1900. Author: E.A. Posselt.

• Warp and Weft. Part 1

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/warpweft_01.pdf
  Series of articles, reprinted from Wool Knowledge and published by the British Wool Marketing Board in 1967, about wool processing and wool textile manufacturing. Articles about wool scouring, carding and combing, and the spinning of woollen yarns.

• Warp and Weft. Part 2

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/warpweft_02.pdf
  Series of articles, reprinted from Wool Knowledge and published by the British Wool Marketing Board in 1967, about wool processing and wool textile manufacturing. Articles about worsted yarn spinning.

• Warp and Weft. Part 3

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/warpweft_03.pdf
  Series of articles, reprinted from Wool Knowledge and published by the British Wool Marketing Board in 1967, about wool processing and wool textile manufacturing. Articles about power loom weaving of woollen and worsted fabrics, the teasels of Sommerset, color and wool, the Welsh woollen textile industry, and the wool cottage industry in India.

• Yarn Counts and Calculations

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/wt_yarn.pdf
  Handbook and reference for students, spinners, manufacturers and merchants from a series of Oxford Technical Manuals first published in 1921 by Thomas Woodhouse, providing an explanation of twenty-two different systems of counting yarns which were commonly used in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, including the principles of calculating production and costs.

 

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