THEORY OF SILK WEAVING

THEORY
OF
SILK WEAVING

A Treatise on the Construction and
Application of Weaves, and the
Decomposition and Calculation of
Broad and Narrow, Plain,
Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics

Containing 95 Plates

By ARNOLD WOLFENSBERGER

Graduate of the Textile Institute of Zurich,
Switzerland

Second Revised and Enlarged Edition

NEW YORK
Issued by THE AMERICAN SILK JOURNAL
CLIFFORD & LAWTON
Publishers
1921

COPYRIGHT. 1921. by CLIFFORD & LAWTON

All rights reserved

GROLIER CRAFT PRESS, Printers. 229 West Twenty-eighth Street, New York City

PREFACE

The silk industry of America has of late years rapidly advanced to the front rank among the great textile industries of the world. It may indeed be proud of this position, to which that enterprising spirit and untiring energy peculiar to our nation, combined with our great technical and natural resources, has brought it.

That we are, on the other hand, not yet at the height of perfection we are also compelled to acknowledge, but if we consider the short space of time that the American industry has required for its development, as compared to the decades, almost centuries, to which some of the great European silk centers can look back, the fact is neither surprising nor discouraging.

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