A technical arithmetic of the woollen manufactures. second edition

Small booklet with decorative card cover and colour-edged pages. Subtitled: "Containing questions of which every man and boy employed in a manufactory should be an absolute master". Preface states the booklet is to remedy the problem that - "young boys...who were good calculators, did not know how to calculate a warp, simply because they did not understand it". Contains the calculation methods for weaving including references to warps, porties, healds, reeds and skeins. E.g. " Bring your woollen yards for one lb. Then divide by one skein for a dram, and the quotient will be the number of skeins thickness". First printed in 1871 but this is the Second Edition with no date. Printed in Huddersfield by J. Broadbent.

Details

Extent:
34 pages in 1 item. 90mm x 120mm.
Identifier:
RCTI/01/05/08
Access:
Open Access

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