
Fabric Manufacture
A handbook
Series: Small-scale Textiles
Published: 1993
Pages: 60
eBook: 9781780442136
Paperback: 9781853391330
Foreword vii
Preface viii
Chapter 1 Introduction to fabric manufacture 1
Chapter 2 Basic principles and processes of fabric manufacture 7
Chapter 3 Simple methods of determining the quality of fabrics 26
Chapter 4 Types of hand-looms and knitting machines 32
Chapter 5 Planning for production 37
Chapter 6 Equipment suppliers 42
Chapter 7 Sources of further information 43
Appendices
1 Woven cotton fabric specification
2 Comparison of Tex with other count systems
3 Cloth (worsted) setting chart : yarn count/cm
4 Cloth (cotton) setting chart : yarn count/in
5 Glossary