Technology Textile Design Complete Practical by Posselt (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. B&W Illustrations; royal 8; 324 pages; Technology of Textile Design: a Complete and Practical Treatise on the Construction and Application of the Various Weaves used in the Manufacture of All Textile Fabrics, Covering Harness and Jacquard Work, Cotton, Wool, Worsted and Silk Goods; the Analysis of Textile Fabrics and Calculations used for Manufacturing, Ways and Means for Improving upon the Construction and Manufacture of Textile Fabrics; of Incalculable Value to Anyone Interested in the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics . Brown pebblegrain cloth binding original. 1500 illustrations. ND but appears to be 1888 due to pagination and number of illustrations. Binding solid, contents generally VG with mild aging.

Condition: Very Good. . . . . 4to, hardcover. No dj, black cloth. Vg condition. NOT ex-library. Endpaper seams just starting, binding still secure. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, Contents clean, free of writing or maring. 324 pp., illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. illustrated (illustrator). Boards are still connected at front gutter, loose at rear; rubbing from many years of handling; textblock intact. A few pencil numbers on front endpaper, otherwise, unmarked pages throughout; some occasional foxing; highly readable white pages.

Tall 8vo. 324 pp. Over 1500 text illustrations, diagrams, weaving diagrams, numerous illustrated ads. Black pebbled cloth, gilt lettering on front cover & spine (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), w/ notes, clippings, & postcard laid-in from the library of Elisa Serin (b. 1887), silk weaver, married to Maurice Serin, foreman of the Allentown, PA plant of Broad Silk Mills. Early printing of this scarce and important guide intended to provide reference for 19th-century weaving students, and textile manufacturers. Posselt (1858-1921), emigrated from Austria after managing his father's textile mills, and was a designer in mills all over New England and Pennsylvania. He became the first director in 1884 of the first successful textile school in the U.S., and later became editor of the Textile Record of North America, the foremost journal on textile design and manufacturing at the end of the 19th-Century. Although his many works on textile machinery and manufacturing are now primarily of historical interest, this well-illustrated work on weaving and loom design is still relevant, and considered some of the most important books on textile design ever published. See: Ralph Griswold, Emanuel Anthony Posselt (2004).