Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Materials Used in Sizing: Their Chemical and Physical Properties and Simple Methods for Their Technical Analysis and Valuation; A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Manchester School of Technology
By a judicious combination of starches, fats, and mineral matters, it is now possible to add 200 per cent. Or even more, to the weight of the warp, so that the cloth when woven may not contain more than 85 per cent. Of cotton fibre. With the moral aspect of this question I dornot propose to deal. It will suffice to regard a cloth as heavily sized or lightly sized, and to consider the nature of the feel - the quality and appearance of the cloth as it is in?uenced by the various ingredients which are used in the mixing.
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