• A
• PAGE
• Accrington trade, 12
• Adhesive substances, 34, 37
• American cotton, 16
• American trade terms, 165
• Analysis of patterns, 90
• Antiseptics, 34, 36
• Area (circular), 159
• Arrangement of looms, 71
• Arrangement of shed, 19
• B
• Back beams, 40
• Ball sizing, 48
• Ball warping, 30
• Ball warps, 29
• Bare cloth, 81
• Beaming or beam warping, 25
• Beating up, 55, 61
• Becks, 37
• Blackburn dobby, 108
• Blackburn pick, 59
• Blackburn standard list, 154
• Blackburn trade, 11
• Black oil, 82
• Bleaching, 83
• Bobbin warpers, 22
• Bolton quilts, 131
• Bolton reed counts, 147
• Bolton trade, 12
• Bottoming, 73, 81
• Bradford loom, 58
• Brake, 69
• Brocade, 130
• Bullhide, 102
• Burnley trade, 12
• Bury trade, 13
• C
• Calculations for—
• Cloth, 149
• Counts, 143
• Engines, 158
• Healds, 148
• Jacquards, 129
• Reeds, 146
• Sizing, 149, 152
• Speeds, 76, 156
• Capital invested, 9
• Card cutting, 127
• Carding, 17
• Cards for drop-box, 140
• Cartwright’s loom, 4
• Casting out, 129
• Centre tie, 126
• Checks, 133
• Checked shirtings, 134
• China clay, 36
• Chloride of magnesium, 36
• Chloride of zinc, 60 Figured gauze—sketch
• 61 Handkerchief loom
• 62 Jacquard—section, single-action
• 63 Needles, jacquard
• 64 Double-action jacquard—single cylinder
• 65 Double-action jacquard—double cylinder
• 66 London tie
• 67 Straight tie
• 68 Lay-over tie
• 69 Centre tie
• 70 Piano card-cutting machine
• 71 Diggle’s chain
• 72 Chain links for ditto
• 73 Wright Shaw’s drop box
• 74 Plates for ditto
• (Also vide Plates.)
• Finishing, 83
• Floats, 81
• Flour, 34
• Flour, testing, 34
• Fork and grid motion, 68
• Friction—sizing, 43
• Fustian, 102
• G
• Gaiting warps, 72
• Gauze, 111
• Gingham, 134
• Goods made—1800–1860, 8
• Goods made—present time, 83
• Grist, 143
• Ground for jacquard patterns, 109, 129
• H
• Handkerchiefs, 115, 134
• Handkerchief loom, 116
• Hands of looms, 71
• Hank, 143
• Hank, winding from, 25
• Haslingden trade, 12
• Headings, 82
• Headles, 51
• Heald counts, 148
• Heald motions, 79
• Healds, 51
• Heck box, 30
• Heddles, 51
• Heddling, 94
• History of trade, 3
• Honeycomb, 95, 131
• Hooking, 80
• Horse-power, 158
• Hydrometer, 38
• I
• ILLUSTRATIONS:—
• Beam gearing, slasher, plan, 42
• Beam gearing, slasher, section, 43
• Blackburn dobby, 107
• Bradford loom, 59
• Centre tie, 126
• Chain links, Diggle’s motion, 59
• Osbaldeston, John, 4
• P
• Packing, 83
• Parts of a loom, 55, 56
• Pattern pricking, 90
• Pegging for dobby, 106, 109, 111
• Percentages of size, 33, 38, 149, 153
• Percentages of waste, 27, 154
• Picking, 55, 59
• Pile weaving, 101, 131
• Pillow-slip weaving, 109
• Plain cloth, 84, 90, 91
• Plain drafting, 55
• Plain loom, 52
• Plaiting, 80
• Plan of shed, 18
• PLATES:—
• I. Plan of shed, 19
• II. Stop-motion warping, 27
• III. Sectional warping, 29
• IV. Slasher sizing machine, 40
• V. Plain loom in parts, 56
• VI. Heald top motions, 56
• VII. Dobbied loom, 104
• Point paper, 90
• Position of warp, 58
• Potato starch, 35
• Preparatory processes, 19, 21
• Pressers, 45
• Preston trade, 12
• Printers, 86
• Processes, spinning, 17
• Processes, weaving, 19
• Q
• Quilts, 131
• R
• Raising, 83, 103
• Rating goods, 149
• Reed and pick, 85
• Reed counts, 146
• Reeds, 51
• Reed space, 79
• Reed table, 148
• Reedy cloth, 81
• Repeating jacquard cards, 128
• Rice starch, 35
• Ring bobbins, 24
• Rochdale trade, 13
• Roving, 17
• S
• Sago, 35
• Satin, 98, 97
• Workpeople, number of, 11
• Worsted counts, 144
• Woven pile, 90, 101, 131
• Wrap reel, 144
• Wrap, warpers’, 28
• Wrapping, 144
• Wright Shaw’s drop box, 138
• Y
• Yarn calculations, 143
• Yarn measure, 143
• Yorkshire loom, 58
• Z
• Zinc, muriate of, 36

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