"The work has been clearly translated from the German and published with suitable illustrations.... The author has dealt very practically with the subject."--_Bradford Daily Telegraph._
"The book, which contains a number of useful coloured diagrams, should prove invaluable to the student, and its handy form will enable it to become a companion more than some cumbrous work."
--_Cotton Factory Times._
"The book has been prepared with great care, and is most usefully illustrated. It is a capital text-book for use in the weaving schools or for self-instruction, while all engaged in the weaving industry will find its suggestions helpful."--_Northern Daily Telegraph._
"The various systems are treated in a careful manner; also the different looms and their manufacture, as well as the whole processes of the work. Yarn numbering according to various systems, with conversion tables and numerous coloured diagrams, materially assist to a clear comprehension of the subject."--_Northern Whig._
"The 'inside' managers of our textile mills in which the work is complex or greatly varied, and where yarns of different materials are in use, will find this work convenient for reference in case of novelty or difficulty. We may also say the same in relation to the textile student. Its description of the parts of the loom and their functions will be of use to the latter, being of the most elementary kind."--_Textile Mercury._
"The author attempts to fill a gap in weaving literature caused by the neglect of many obscure points connected with the industry. A short review is given of the power-loom as a whole, followed by a description of the different parts of the machinery with their advantages and defects.... The book is severely technical, but must on that account be very valuable to the pupil who is determined to master this industrial art."--_Cheshire County News._
"It is clear and concise, and gives just that knowledge in quality and amount which any student of the weaving industry ought to consider as a minimum necessary for his thorough comprehension of his future profession. The handiness and variety of the information comprised in Section III., dealing with the numbering and reeling of yarns employed in the various systems in different countries, struck us as particularly useful."--_North British Daily Mail._
"This work brings before weavers who are actually engaged in the various branches of fabrics, as well as the technical student, the different parts of the general run of power-looms in such a manner that the parts of the loom and their bearing to each other can be readily understood.... The work should prove of much value, as it is in every sense practical, and is put before the reader in such a clear manner that it can be easily understood."--_Textile Industries._
"The book under notice is intended as an instructor to those engaged in power-loom weaving, and, judging by its compilation, the author is a thorough master of the craft. It is not overloaded with details, and he manages to compress in a book of some 150 pages all that one can possibly wish to know about the different parts of the machinery, whether of English or foreign make, and for whatever kind of cloth required. A comprehensive summary is also included of the various yarns and methods of numbering them, as well as a few useful hints and a number of coloured diagrams for mandarin weavings. The book is printed in bold, legible type, on good paper, has a copious index, and is well and strongly bound."--_Ashton-under-Lyne Herald._
"In dealing with the complicated parts of various classes of power-looms, the writer, who is one of the professors at the Royal Weaving School of Asch, brings to the work a thorough knowledge of the subject, and, what is of great value, he has the gift of communicating his knowledge in a way which is easily understood.
The smallest details of loom-setting are entered into, and a full explanation of problems, which are a source of anxiety to many engaged in overlooking, is given. Students will find the work an admirable text-book, and all who are interested in weaving will see in it a valuable addition to the literature on this subject.... The book is in small compass, and is crowded with valuable information."--_Bradford Observer._
=COLOUR: A HANDBOOK OF THE THEORY OF COLOUR.= By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S.
=With Ten Coloured Plates= and Seventy-two Illustrations. 160 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s.
6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., =Colour and Its Production.= Light, Colour, Dispersion of White Light Methods of Producing the Spectrum, Glass Prism and Diffraction Grating Spectroscopes, The Spectrum, Wave Motion of Light, Recomposition of White Light, Hue, Luminosity, Purity of Colours, The Polariscope, Phosphorescence, Fluorescence, Interference.--II., =Cause of Colour in Coloured Bodies.= Transmitted Colours, Absorption Spectra of Colouring Matters.--III., =Colour Phenomena and Theories.= Mixing Colours, White Light from Coloured Lights, Effect of Coloured Light on Colours, Complementary Colours, Young-Helmholtz Theory, Brewster Theory, Supplementary Colours, Maxwell's Theory, Colour Photography.--IV., =The Physiology of Light.= Structure of the Eye, Persistence of Vision, Subjective Colour Phenomena, Colour Blindness.--V., =Contrast.= Contrast, Simultaneous Contrast, Successive Contrast, Contrast of Tone.
Contrast of Colours, Modification of Colours by Contrast, Colour Contrast in Decorative Design.--VI., =Colour in Decoration and Design.= Colour Harmonies, Colour Equivalents, Illumination and Colour, Colour and Textile Fabrics, Surface Structure and Colour.--VII., =Measurement of Colour.= Colour Patch Method, The Tintometer, Chromometer.
=Press Opinions.=
"This useful little book possesses considerable merit, and will be of great utility to those for whom it is primarily intended."--_Birmingham Post._
"It will be found to be of direct service to the majority of dyers, calico printers and colour mixers, to whom we confidently recommend it."--_Chemical Trade Journal._
"It is thoroughly practical, and gives in simple language the why and wherefore of the many colour phenomena which perplex the dyer and the colourist."--_Dyer and Calico Printer._
"We have found the book very interesting, and can recommend it to all who wish to master the different aspects of colour theory, with a view to a practical application of the knowledge so gained."--_Chemist and Druggist._
"Mr. Hurst's _Handbook on the Theory of Colour_ will be found extremely useful, not only to the art student, but also to the craftsman, whose business it is to manipulate pigments and dyes."--_Nottingham Daily Guardian._
=TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS AND THEIR CONVERSION INTO YARNS.= (The Study of the Raw Materials and the Technology of the Spinning Process.) Text-book for Textile, Trade and Higher Technical Schools. By JULIUS ZIPSER.
Translated from German by CHARLES SALTER. 302 Illustrations. 480 pp.
Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
=Raw Materials=: Cotton--Wool--Flax--Hemp--Jute--Hair--Shearing Sheep--Goat Wool--Silk--Detection and Estimation of Textile Raw Materials in Yarns and Fabrics--Tests.--=The Technology of Spinning.
Cotton Spinning:= Bale Breakers--Carding--Combing--Roving--Mule Frames--Yarn Testing--Humidifiers. =Flax Spinning:= Tow Spinning--String Spinning--Carded Woollen Yarn--Belt Condenser--Fine Spinning--Yarn Numbering.--=Manufacture of True Worsted Yarn:= Semi-Worsted Yarns.--=Artificial Wool or Shoddy Spinning:= Spinning Shoddy.--=Index.=
=THE COLOUR PRINTING OF CARPET YARNS.= A Useful Manual for Colour Chemists and Textile Printers. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Seventeen Illustrations. 132 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s. Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Structure and Constitution of Wool Fibre.--II., Yarn Scouring.--III., Scouring Materials.--IV., Water for Scouring.--V., Bleaching Carpet Yarns.--VI., Colour Making for Yarn Printing.--VII., Colour Printing Pastes.--VIII., Colour Recipes for Yarn Printing.--IX., Science of Colour Mixing.--X., Matching of Colours.--XI., "Hank"
Printing.--XII., Printing Tapestry Carpet Yarns.--XIII., Yarn Printing.--XIV., Steaming Printed Yarns.--XV., Washing of Steamed Yarns.--XVI., Aniline Colours Suitable for Yarn Printing.--XVII., Glossary of Dyes and Dye-wares used in Wood Yarn Printing.--Appendix.
=Press Opinions.=
"The book is worthy the attention of the trade."--_Worcester Herald._
"The treatise is arranged with great care, and follows the processes described in a manner at once clear and convincing."--_Glasgow Record._
"A most useful manual dealing in an intelligible and interesting manner with the colour printing of carpet yarns."--_Kidderminster Times._
"An eminent expert himself, the author has evidently strained every effort in order to make his work the standard guide of its class."--_Leicester Post._
"The book, which is admirably printed and illustrated, should fulfil the need of a practical guide in the colour printing of carpet yarns.--_Nottingham Express._
"The subject is very exhaustively treated in all its branches....
The work, which is very well illustrated with designs, machines, and wool fibres, will be a useful addition to our textile literature."--_Northern Whig._
"It gives an account of its subject which is both valuable and instructive in itself, and likely to be all the more welcome because books dealing with textile fabrics usually have little or nothing to say about this way of decorating them."--_Scotsman._
"The work shows a thorough grasp of the leading characteristics as well as the minutiae of the industry, and gives a lucid description of its chief departments.... As a text-book in technical schools where this branch of industrial education is taught, the book is valuable, or it may be perused with pleasure as well as profit by any one having an interest in textile industries."--_Dundee Courier._
"The book bears every mark of an extensive practical knowledge of the subject in all its bearings, and supplies a real want in technical literature. Chapters IX. and X., on the science of colour mixing and colour matching respectively, are especially good, and we do not remember to have seen the bearing of various kinds of light, and of the changes from one kind of light to another on the work of the colourist, so well treated elsewhere."--_Dyer and Calico Printer._
"It is thoroughly practical, and contains much information which has not hitherto appeared in book form. It is pleasing to note that the practical part is not crowded out with purely 'practical recipes'. A few typical examples are given, and the rest is left to the common sense and judgment of the printer or works' chemist. Another pleasing feature is the accounts given here and there of the author's own researches on the subject. The work will be of interest to printers of wool generally, and to those engaged in the dyeing of this fibre."--_Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists._
=A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE BLEACHING OF LINEN AND COTTON YARN AND FABRICS.= By L. TAILFER, Chemical and Mechanical Engineer. Translated from the French by JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH, Lecturer on Chemical Technology, London. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapter I. General Considerations on Bleaching. Chapter II. Steeping.
Chapter III. Washing: Its End and Importance--Roller Washing Machines--Wash Wheel (Dash Wheel)--Stocks or Wash Mill--Squeezing.
Chapter IV. Lye Boiling--Lye Boiling with Milk of Lime--Lye Boiling with Soda Lyes--Description of Lye Boiling Keirs--Operations of Lye Boiling--Concentration of Lyes. Chapter V. Mather and Platt's Keir--Description of the Keir--Saturation of the Fabrics--Alkali used in Lye Boiling--Examples of Processes. Chapter VI. Soap--Action of Soap in Bleaching--Quality and Quantity of Soaps to use in the Lye--Soap Lyes or Scalds--Soap Scouring Stocks. Chapter VII. Bleaching on Grass or on the Bleaching Green or Lawn. Chapter VIII. Chemicking--Remarks on Chlorides and their Decolourising Action--Chemicking Cisterns--Chemicking--Strengths, etc. Chapter IX. Sours--Properties of the Acids--Effects Produced by Acids--Souring Cisterns. Chapter X.
Drying--Drying by Steam--Drying by Hot Air--Drying by Air. Chapter XI.
Damages to Fabrics in Bleaching--Yarn Mildew--Fermentation--Iron Rust Spots--Spots from Contact with Wood--Spots incurred on the Bleaching Green--Damages arising from the Machines. Chapter XII. Examples of Methods used in Bleaching--Linen--Cotton. Chapter XIII. The Valuation of Caustic and Carbonated Alkali (Soda) and General Information Regarding these Bodies--Object of Alkalimetry--Titration of Carbonate of Soda--Comparative Table of Different Degrees of Alkalimetrical Strength--Five Problems relative to Carbonate of Soda --Caustic Soda, its Properties and Uses--Mixtures of Carbonated and Caustic Alkali--Note on a Process of Manufacturing Caustic Soda and Mixtures of Caustic and Carbonated Alkali (soda). Chapter XIV. Chlorometry--Titration--Wagner's Chlorometric Method--Preparation of Standard Solutions--Apparatus for Chlorine Valuation--Alkali in Excess in Decolourising Chlorides. Chapter XV. Chlorine and Decolourising Chlorides--Synopsis--Chlorine--Chloride of Lime--Hypochlorite of Soda--Brochoki's Chlorozone--Various Decolourising Hypochlorites--Comparison of Chloride of Lime and Hypochlorite of Soda. Chapter XVI. Water--Qualities of Water--Hardness--Dervaux's Purifier--Testing the Purified Water--Different Plant for Purification--Filters. Chapter XVII.
Bleaching of Yarn--Weight of Yarn--Lye Boiling--Chemicking--Washing--Bleaching of Cotton Yarn. Chapter XVIII.