Three Textile Raw Materials and Their Manufacture

About this eBook

Contributor

Warburg, James P. (James Paul), 1896-1969

Title

Three textile raw materials and their manufacture

Original Publication

United States: International Acceptance Bank, Inc., 1924.

Credits

Bob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

TS: Technology: Manufactures

Subject

Textile fibers

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71158

Release Date

July 10, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THREE TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS AND THEIR MANUFACTURE
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.CHAPTER I THE RAW MATERIAL — 1. The Cotton Plant — 2. History and Distribution — 3. Cultivation — 4. Grades and Staples — FOOTNOTES: — 5. Buyers of Raw Cotton — 6. The Cotton Exchanges
7. 7.CHAPTER II THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON — 1. History in the U. S. — 2. Making Cotton Yarn — 3. Weaving Gray Goods — 4. Converting and Finishing — 5. The Knitting Industry — 6. Other Cotton Products — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER III FROM MILL TO CONSUMER — 1. Industrial Organization — 2. The Distribution of Products
9. 9.CHAPTER IV THE POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES — 1. Cotton Production and Consumption
10. 10.THE INTERNATIONAL ACCEPTANCE BANK, INC. AND THE COTTON TRADE
11. 11.Untitled
12. 12.CHAPTER I THE RAW MATERIAL — 1. Sheep Raising — AVERAGE WEIGHTS OF DIFFERENT BREEDS OF SHEEP WITH WEIGHTS OF FLEECES — 2. Shearing and Marketing of Fleece Wool — 3. Pulled Wool — 4. What is Wool — COMPARATIVE GRADES
13. 13.CHAPTER II WORSTED MANUFACTURE — 1. Scouring — 2. Carding — 3. Backwashing and Gilling — 4. Combing — 5. Spinning — 6. Dyeing — 8. Worsted Finishing
14. 14.CHAPTER III WOOLEN MANUFACTURE — 1. The Manufacture of Woolen Yarn — 2. The Manufacture of Woolen Cloth — 3. Mohair and Alpaca — 4. Knitting and Felt Manufacture
15. 15.CHAPTER IV THE ECONOMIC ASPECT — 1. Financial Risks — 2. Demand and Supply — WOOL PRODUCT OF THE UNITED STATES — IMPORTS OF WOOL INTO THE UNITED STATES
16. 16.THE INTERNATIONAL ACCEPTANCE BANK, INC. AND THE WOOL TRADE
17. 17.Untitled
18. 18.CHAPTER I THE RAW MATERIAL — 1. History — 2. The Silk Worm — 3. Modern Sericulture
19. 19.CHAPTER II REELING — 1. History of the Filature — 2. Preparing to Reel — FOOTNOTES: — 3. Modern Reeling Methods — 4. Sources of Raw Silk
20. 20.CHAPTER III MARKETING RAW SILK — 1. Marketing Methods — Raw Silk Production, Including Tussah Silk — 2. Conditioning — 3. Grading and Quotations
21. 21.CHAPTER IV MANUFACTURE OF THROWN AND SPUN SILK — 1. Thrown Silk — 2. Spun Silk — FOOTNOTES: — 3. Marketing Thrown and Spun Silk
22. 22.CHAPTER V WEAVING AND FINISHING — 1. Weaving — 2. Finishing
23. 23.CHAPTER VI ARTIFICIAL SILK — 1. Early Development — 2. Various Processes — 3. Uses of Artificial Silk
24. 24.THE INTERNATIONAL ACCEPTANCE BANK, INC. AND THE SILK TRADE — Transcriber’s Notes

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