A Cotton Fabrics Glossary Classic Reprint

Author : W. D. Darby
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ISBN 13 : 9781332236404
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Cotton written by W. D. Darby and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cotton: The Universal Fiber, a Survey of the Cotton Industry From the Raw Material to the Finished Product, Including Descriptions of Manufacturing and Marketing Methods and a Dictionary of Cotton Goods The Dry Goods Economist presents this little book to the public and to the trade believing that it fills a long felt want. Letters have come to us for years asking for such a work, but not until recently have we had the information necessary to give a comprehensive yet condensed story of cotton - its history, its production and the final form in which it reaches the consumer. Those whose interest is confined to the use of cotton will gain greater pleasure from their cotton clothing when possessed of the knowledge contained in the pages that follow. The student of textiles will find the facts as presented a veritable mine of information. Few books of any size contain so much authoritative data as has been assembled herein. The teacher of textiles will use this little book to make assignments for research into the various branches of the cotton industry because of the vast number of suggestions found in these pages. The buyer of cotton in any of its stages will find his work more interesting and more profitable after a reading of "Cotton - The Universal Fiber." Briefly, this book has been written by Mr. Darby in a simple, plain, easily understood way, void of those technicalities which make so many books of this nature such dry reading. We cannot recommend the book too highly to all those who would know more about the fiber that enters so largely into our lives from birth to death. And the value of the book isn't limited to the pages that tell the story of cotton. The dictionary of cotton terms in the back is the best we have ever seen. As a matter of fact, it is more than a dictionary. It is in the nature of an encyclopedia, giving not only the definitions of the terms listed but some description of how the merchandise represented by the terms is made or manufactured, and often even telling the uses of the goods described. Therefore, let us again emphasize that it is with pleasure the Dry Goods Economist offers this work to you. May your pleasure and interest in reading the book be as great as was ours and Mr. Darby's during the many months spent in searching for, assembling and condensing the facts necessary to make up a really worthwhile book on "Cotton - The Universal Fiber." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.