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TEXTILES

FOR COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, AND DOMESTIC
ARTS SCHOOLS; ALSO ADAPTED TO THOSE
ENGAGED IN WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRY GOODS, WOOL, COTTON, AND
DRESSMAKER’S TRADES

BY

WILLIAM H. DOOLEY

PRINCIPAL LOWELL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
LOWELL, MASS.

REVISED EDITION
WITH EXPERIMENTS

D. C. HEATH & COMPANY
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

COPYRIGHT, 1910, 1912, AND 1914, BY
D. C. HEATH AND COMPANY

COTTON PLANT

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PREFACE

The author established and since its inception hasbeen in charge of the first industrial school for boysand girls in Massachusetts. At an early date he recognizedthe need of special text-books to meet the demandof young people who are attending vocational schools.There are plenty of books written on textiles for technicalschool students and advanced workers. But theauthor has failed to find a book explaining the manufactureand testing of textiles for commercial, industrial,domestic arts, and continuation schools, and for thosewho have just entered the textile or allied trades. Thisbook is written to meet this educational need. Othersmay find the book of interest, particularly the chaptersdescribing cotton, woolen, worsted, and silk fabrics.

The author is under obligations to Mr. Franklin W.Hobbs, treasurer of the Arlington Mills, for permission touse illustrations and information from literature publishedby the Arlington Mills; to Mr. S. H. Ditchett,editor of Dry Goods Economist, for permission to useinformation from his publication, “Dry Goods Encyclopedia”;[Pg vi]to the editor of the Textile Mercury; toFrank P. Bennett, of the American Wool and CottonReporter, for permission to use information from “CottonFabrics Glossary”; and to the instructors of theLawrence Industrial School for valuable information.In addition, information has been obtained from thegreat body of textile literature, which the authordesires to acknowledge.

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