THE TEXTILE INDUSTRIES. 31 



In Medium 8vo. Handsome Cloth. Pp. i-xvi -f 615. With 13 Plates 

 and 80 Illustrations, also 86 Patterns inset in Text. 36s. net. 



The PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE of TEXTILE PRINTING 



BY E. KNECHT, PH.D., AND J. B. FOTHERGILL. 



CONTENTS. Part I. Introduction. Part II. Methods of Printing. Part III. Pre- 

 paration of Cloth for Printing. Part IV. Preparation of Printing Colours. Part V. 

 Treatment of Goods after Printing. Part VL Mordants. Part VII. Styles of Printing : 

 <a) Direct; (6) Dyed; (c) Insoluble Azo-Colour; (d) Discharge; (e) Resist or Reserve; 

 (/) Raised; (17) Printing of Linings; (A) Metal Printing; (i) Crepon or "Crimp." 

 Part VIII. Finishing of Printed Calicoes. Part IX. Wool and Half Wool Printing. 

 Part X. Silk and Half Silk Printing. INDEX. 



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THE BLEACHING AND FINISHING OF COTTON. 



BY S. R. TROTMAN, M.A., F.I.C., AND E. L. THORP, M.I.MECH.E. 



CONTENTS. Structure of Cotton Fibre. Constituents of Cotton Fibre. Cotton Testing. 

 Carbohydrates. Water. Bacteria in Bleaching. Cotton Piece Goods. Steeping. 

 Transmission of Cloth. Alkali Boiling Soap. Soap Making. Organic Solvents. 

 Keirs. Washing Machines. Bleaching and Bleaching Powder. Bleaching and Souring 

 Apparatus. Sodium Hypochlorite and Electrolytic Bleaching Solutions. Other Bleach- 

 ing Agents. Souring Acids and Souring Apparatus. Processes. Coloured Goods. 

 Stains and Discolourations. Finishing and Materials Used. Manglinsr, Drying, and 

 Conditioning. Stiffening and Mangles. Auxiliary Machines and Processes. Stenters. 

 Beetling. Calendering. Finishing Processes. INDEX. 



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THE SPINNING AND TWISTING OF LONG 

 VEGETABLE FIBRES 



(FLAX, HEMP, JUTE. TOW, & RAMIE). 



A Practical Manual of the most Modern Methods as applied to the Hackling, Carding, 

 Preparing, Spinning, and Twisting of the Long Vegetable Fibres of Commerce. 



BY HERBERT R. CARTER, of Belfast, Ghent, and Lille. 

 CONTENTS. Long Vegetable Fibres of Commerce. Rise and Growth of the Spinning 

 Industry. Raw Fibre Markets and Purchase of Materials. Storing and Preliminary 

 Operations of Batching, Softening, Knifing, Breaking, and Cutting. Hackling by Hand 

 and Machine, Cost and Speed of Machining. Sorting, and Management of Hackling 

 Dept. Preparing Department. Sliver Formation. Tow Carding and Mixing. Pre- 

 paring, Drawing and Doubling, and Tow Combing. Gill Spinning. Rope Yarn. Binder 

 Twine. Trawl Twine and Shoe Threads. The Flax, Hemp, Jute, and Ramie Roving 

 Frame. Dry and Demy-Sec Spinning of Flax, Hemp, Jute, and Ramie. The Wet Spinning 



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of Flax, Hemp, and Ramie Yarns. Flax, Hemp, Jute, and Ramie Waste Spinning. 

 Yarn Reeling, Winding Drying, Cooling, and Bundling. Manufacture of Threads, Twines, 

 and Cords. Rope Making. Weight of Ropes. Mechanical Department : Repairs. 

 Fluting. Hackle-Setting. Wood Turning. Oils and Oiling. Mill Construction; 

 Heating. Lighting, Ventilation, and Humidiflcation. Boilers, Engines, etc. Power 

 Transmission. INDEX. 



" The WHOLE SUBJECT is EXHAUSTIVELY AND ABLY DEALT WITH by Mr. Carter, and 

 the letterpress is illustrated by an ABUNDANCE OP EXCELLENT PLATES. . . . The 

 book is THE WORK OF A TECHNICAL EXPERT, who can put his knowledge into plain English, 

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