Identifier: cyclopediaoftext05amer (find matches)
Title: Cyclopedia of textile work : a general reference library on cotton, woolen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American School (Lansing, Ill.)
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile industry
Publisher: Chicago : American school of correspondence
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Fig. 178. Diagrammatic View of Textile Machine Worlds Footer. machine, the web being narrowed at each side to form the desiredinstep-gussets, and being also narrowed at the toe, so as to properlyround the same. 282
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o s M H H o CO u Sx CO M 00 z •^ o li< Eh O HO a) a U IS o 9^ -) 2 Q « U >< z U W O X Q (1) Z o s c« -) S> b^ ICNITTING 265 This method of manufacture necessitates sewing or seamingoperations to complete the stocking, because, as the stocking-blankis knitted in the form of a flat web, it is necessary to unite the edgesof this web by a seam extending down the back of the leg, calf, ankle^and heel, and by another seam extending under the bottom of the toe,foot, and heel. Generally speaking, the advantages of a full-fashioned stockingover the product of a circular machine, consist in the fact that theformer is shaped or fashioned in such a way that the fabric isnarrowed by the dropping of stitches to suit the contours of the legand foot, and to insure a perfectly fitting stocking. Another ad-vantage of a full-fashioned stocking is that it is made with springneedles, which leave the yarn its full amount of elasticity, a

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