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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
e