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the weft threads to pass over one warp thread, and tlien under two, 

 and so on, instead of takinu- the warp threads in regular sueeession, 

 one down, one up. The next weft thread takes a set oblique to the 

 former, throwing- up one of the two deposed hy the preeedino-. In 

 some twills it is one in three, or one in four. The Latin irilii'^ a cer- 

 tain pattern in weaving, became (Jr'dllcli in (lernian, and hence our 

 word drill. Tirlll is derived from ziolllicli^ wliicli answers to tiro 

 Latin /»///,/•, and the Greek d!iJiJt<»<. The latter sur\'ives in dnii'ti/. 

 See also si(ni/t<\ derived from (Ireek hcniindon^ six thread. 



Fr<;. 7. 



ANCIENT TWILLED WORK. 

 ri-csse<l .111 ii..ltory "f Alahaiiia. After W. H. llnliii 



The French toudUh; has also ))een suggested as the etymological 

 source of the word. 



The fabrics thus woven are very numerous — satin, blanket, merino, 

 bom])azine, kerseymere, etc. When the threads cross each alternately 

 in regular order it is called pi a in ivearhn/,' but in tirdJ the same 



Fig. 8. 

 ancient twillei> work. 



iittfi-y (>r Tcinirssce. After W. H. Iloli 



thread of weft is ////.s7//y/, or separated from the war[) while passing 

 over a numl)er of waip threads, and then })asses under a warp tliread. 

 (See Plate 16.) 



The points where tlie threads of the warp cross form diagonal lines, 

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