Cambrics are the finest of the group; generally wide from 24 square to
36 square, 80 to 160’s yarn; pure size.
Turkey, India, China, Japan, Roumania, the Levant, Egypt, are all
customers for these four cloths.
Book and tarletan muslins are very fine home trades.
A variety of cambric called embroidery cloth is largely made in some
districts. It is of first-class quality, usually about 50 inches wide,
and cut up into short lengths. It is chiefly exported to Germany and
Switzerland, there to be embroidered by the machines spread over the
country districts, and returned as Swiss work, etc.
Sheetings are very wide goods; 60 to 100 inches. The yarns are coarse,
generally 12’s to 20’s, although fine sheetings are frequently made.
Waste plains are coarse goods woven with yarn spun from waste.
Ginghams, checks, zephyrs, although coloured goods, are of plain weave,
and of unclassifiable dimensions.
Other plain cloths needing little remark in consequence of their
unimportance are:--
Tarletan Muslin 52 inches 40 yards, 13 square
Chambrey 28 " 30 " 27 × 22
Hair-cord Muslin ... 59 " 24 " 20 × 22
Warped 1 twofold, and 1 fine single.
Blue Mottle 27 inches 96 yards, 16 × 11
Blue warp, white weft.
Victoria lawns, fine goods, and Taffechelas, formerly important goods,
are now in little request.
Cotton cloths other than plain:--
_Drills._--Heavy 3-shaft twills, narrow, heavily sized. Exported
chiefly to China, few to Cyprus, Levant, Turkey, and Brazil.
_Cretonnes._--Printed twill, made from coarse waste wefts, finer warps,
various widths, generally narrow. Home trade; also exported to Turkey
and British Colonies.
_Jeans._--Finer 3-shaft twills, plain borders, narrow, for printing or
finishing.
_Sateens._--5-shaft broken twills, 30 to 36 inches, 75 to 90 yards, 70
to 96 reed, 40 to 80 picks, 36’s to 80’s weft.
_Velveteens._--Narrow, heavy-picked cloths, from 90 to 120 to the
quarter-inch, yarns fine and best quality, 80 to 100 yards. Home trade
and general export.
_Cords, Fustians, Corduroys._--Heavy, figured cloths, 20’s yarn, 90 to
140 picks to a quarter-inch, 70 to 90 yards.
_Brocades._--Fancy jacquard goods; 36 inches, 75 yards; 72 to 96 reed,
20 to 26 picks.
_Doriah Stripes._--Cloth carrying crammed stripes--not in colour--are
often narrow, 26 to 30 inches, 10 yards long, 12 to 30 reed by 13 to 14
picks; yarn, 40/50’s T; and finer wefts.
_Leno._--Narrow, generally 30 inches; 24 to 40 yards, very variable in
reed and pick; yarns.
In white check we find:--
_Figured Checks._--30 to 36 inches, 13 × 16 to 18 × 20; 12 yards single
cuts.
Satin Check 40 inches 32 yards, 16 × 20
Tape Check 36 " 24 " 22 × 20
37 " 48 " 20 × 24
STANDARD MAKES.
Width. Length. Reed and Pick. Yarn or Weight.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account