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DICKSON ON THE 



METHOD OF COUNTING WARP AND WEFT 

 IN A LINEN DRILL WEB. 



Example. — As the warp appears on the right side of a 

 drill-web, take a piece, say 100 beer, which observe in the 

 above table is made from 102 hanks of 70 lea warp, and 62 

 hanks and 60 lea weft; place your counting glass on the 

 twill or face of the web, and you should be able to count 

 twenty-six threads in paws, one partially lapped over the 

 other. If you cannot make out twenty-six threads under a 

 correct linen glass it is not 100 beer, and as a consequence it 

 has not 102 hanks of warp, and must be of less value than 

 100 beer. In counting the weft you turn the piece and place 

 your glass on the back, or what is termed the wrong side, and 

 if it has been wefted with 60 lea yarns, and sixty-two hanks 

 have been driven on the warp, the twill on the face will he short 

 and close, the web thick, and you should be able to count under 

 the glass seventeen shots of weft, if less the weaver must not 

 have driven on sixty-two hanks. 



Having stated the number of yarns necessary to make outer 

 clothing from linen-drill suited to wear in hot climates, or in 

 warm weather at home, I shall conclude my observations on 

 this part of the subject by giving the exact expenses attending 

 the manufacture of a still more important article than that 

 mentioned, inasmuch as we have other articles of outside 

 dress at a moderate price, which we might use [instead of an 

 article made from Flax ; however, as we all know the 

 comforts of a good clean linen shirt, I shall give par- 

 ticulars as to the proper method of getting up a fifty-two 

 yards piece of linen, and as the majority of the people 

 who wear linen shirts are not likely to purchase yard-wide 

 linen for that purpose below 12§d. per yard (and for that 

 price they should have what we call fourteen hundred, marked 



