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All sorts of textile related artefacts etc.
Textile Leaflets and Manuals
All leaflets and
manuals are in very good to excellent condition unless otherwise stated.
Biomass & Bioenergy Vol.1 No.1 1991 - (TW2) - £5.95
British Nylon Spinners Technical Service Manual - BNS -
1948-1966 - L/L - £10.95 (TW1)
BRRA - Pub. No. 5 - BRRA "3-over-4" Drafting
System for Drawing Frames - Locke J - 1956 - £2.75 (TW1)
BRRA - Pub. No. 30 - BRRA Hydrolysis of Cellulose - Part 1 -
Fine Structure of Egyptian Cotton -
Sharples A - 1954 - (TW1) £1.50
BRRA - Pub. No. 31 - BRRA Hydrolysis of Cellulose - Part 2
Acid Sensitive Linkages in Egyptian Cotton
- Sharples A - 1954 - (TW2) £1.50
BRRA - Sci.Reprint No.65 Partial Embedding Technique for Replication
of Fibres Dlugosz J - 1956 - (TW2) £1.50
BRRA - Sci.Reprint No.66 Water Solubilities & Heats of
Solution of Short chain Cellulosic Oligosacchirides J B Taylor - 1957 - (TW1) £1.50
BRRA - Sci.Reprint No.67 Degradation of Carbohydrates by
Alkali Part XIV 3:6-
Anhydro-D-Glucose - Kenner / Corbett
& Part XV Factors in Formation of Metasaccharinic Acids from
3-0-Derivatives of Glucose - 1957 - (TW2) £1.75
BRRA - Sci.Reprint No.69 - Thermodynamic Properties of
Mixtures of Secondary Cellulose Acetate & its Solvents. - Jeffries R - 1957
- (TW2) £1.50
BRRA - Sci.Reprint No.71 - 4-Carbon Saccharinic Acids From
Alkaline Degradation of 3-O-Methyl-L-Glycerotetrulose &
4-O-Methyl-D-Threose - Richards G N -
1957 - (TW1) £1.75
BRRA - Sci. Reprint. No. 73 - BRRA - Separation of Lactones
from Reducing Sugars by Anion-Exchange Resins - Machell G - 1957 - (TW1) £1.75
BRRA - Technological Reprint - No. 1 - BRRA - An
Autocorrelogram Computer - Revesz G -
1954 - (TW1) £1.95
BRRA - Technological Reprint - No. 19 - BRRA - Effect of
Relative Humidity & Temperature on Livliness of Viscose Crepe Yarn - Gregory J M - 1956 - (TW1) £1.95
BRRA - Technological Reprint - No. 25 - BRRA An Improved
Vibroscope - Butler KJ - 1958 - (TW2) £1.75
BRRA - Technological Reprint - No. 26 - BRRA -
Unconventional Looms - Turton G - 1958
- (TW1) £2.95
Carding of Cotton Waste - Platt Bros - 1946 - Summary of
machinery - (TW1) £3.95
Cards - Platt Bros.
- 1948 - Booklet - CP 19 - (TW1) £1.95
Cards , The Basis of Good Spinning - Tweedale & Smalley
- Booklet - No date - (TW1) £1.50
Catalogue of Shirley Institute Publications on Spinning -
1951 - (TW1) £2.95
Cirtel Diameter & Compressibility of Wool Yarns :
Effect of Linear Density, Twist and Fibre Diameter Anderson SL / Settle GE
1965 - £1.50
Cirtel New Technique for Separation of Peptide Mixtures
from Wool Proteins Blackburn S / Lee GR 1965 - £1.25
Cirtel Decatising Process: with Special Reference to its
Influence on Dimensional Stability of Cloth Lees K / Elsworth FF 1965 -
£1.25
Cirtel Examination of Tryptic Digests of Oxidised &
Reduced Wool Proteins Blackburn S / Lee GR 1965 - £1.25
Cirtel Controlled Degradation of Wool Cole M / Corfield
MC / Fletcher JC / Robson A - 1965 - £1.25
Cirtel Infra Red Spectroscopic Investigation of Keratin
Wood F / King G 1965 - £1.25
Comparative Survey Showing Economic Advantages of Circular Looms
over Other Types of Jute Weaving equipment - Fairbairn Lawson Textile Machinery
Co - approx 1962 - L/L with sample
- (TW1) £4.50
Concentration in the English Cotton Industry Wisselink
1930 Rotterdamsche Courant - (TW2) - £4.50
Cotton Manufacturing Commission Pt.1 Ministry of Labour
& National Service HMSO 1949 - (TW2) £2.50
Cotton Textile Mission to the USA - Report 1944 - HMSO 1945
Reprint - (TW1) £2.50
Death in the Textile Industry - Kirby P - TGWU Textile Group
- 1982 - (TW1) £1.95
Descriptive Account of Yarn Tensions & Balloon Shapes in
Ring Spinning De Barr A E 1957 - £1.75
Shirley Institute Pamphlet No. 76 - Guide for Shirley
Institute Literature - 1922-1959 - Spinners & Doublers - 1960 - (TW1) £4.95
Economic Strategy : The Clothing Industry - N.Ireland Econ.
Council - 1987 - (TW1) £2.50
Economic Strategy : The Textile Industry - N.Ireland Econ. Council - 1984 - (TW1) £2.50
Effect of Spinning Draft & Twist on Strength & Other
Properties of Spun Silk Yarns - BCIRA -
Pamphlet No.69 - 1957 - (TW1) £1.95
Fibre Blends & Blending : Properties of Singles Yarns
Spun from Cotton / Nylon Blends - BCIRA Pamphlet No.71 - 1958 -
(TW2) £2.50
Frictional Properties of Cotton & their Relation to
Industrial Processing - Fargher R G & Moss E - 1946 - (TW1) £1.75
Fuel & Power in the Cotton Industry - Lee R M - 1951
- (TW1) £1.75
Gilbos Varitens 810 Automatic Fishermans Knotter Manual -
L/L - (TW1) £3.50
Gilbos Folder - Photographic Illustrations of Machines and
parts - 13 pages - (TW1) £2.25
Gilbos Conematic M3 Instruction book - (complete with wiring
diagrams) - L/L - (TW1) £4.75
Gilbos Conematic M3 Adjusting Instructions Manual - L/L
- (TW1) £4.50
Guide to the Identification of Permanent Finishes on
Cellulosic Fabrics - Cosgrove J S - 1950 -
(TW1) £1.95
Guide to Use of Regularity Testers in Spinning Mills - BCIRA - Pamphlet No.61 - 1953 - (TW1) £1.50
High Production Tandem Card Model "DN.W" - Nagoya
Metallic card clothing Co - Machine Manual - No date - (TW1) £3.50
Incentives - Knight R - 1951 - (TW1) £1.25
Infra-red Heating in the Cotton Industry - Thomas F W - 1945
- (TW1) £1.50
Industrial Productivity & the Means to Improve It -
Currie R M - 1951 - (TW1) £1.75
Irregularity of materials Drafted on Cotton Spinning
Machinery & its Dependence on Draft, Doubling & Roller Setting
Cavaney / Foster / Anderson 1955 - £1.95
Japanese Textile Industry Cotton & Man-Made Fibres -
Shirley Institute Pamphlet No. 94 -
1966 - (TW2) £2.75
Labour Management in the American Cotton Industry - Tippett
L H C - (TW1) £5.95
Loom Efficiencies & Stoppages & Work of the
Operatives in Non-Automatic Weaving - 1946 -
(TW1) £1.75
Machine Interference (reprint from JTI) 1953 - £1.25 (TW2)
MANRA Pub. No. 7 - Report of Series of Mill Surveys made on
Hattersley Shuttle Changing Silk & Rayon Loom - Grills R - 1956? - (TW1) £2.50
MANRA Private Pub. No. 7 - Report of Series of Mill Surveys
made on the Crompton & Knowles S6 Loom - Grills R - 1956? - (TW2) £2.50
MANRA Private Pub. No. 8 - Report of Series of Mill Surveys
made on the Northrop RS Loom - Grills R - 1956? - (TW1) £2.95
MANRA Private Pub. No. 9 - Report of Series of Mill Surveys
made on the St Colombe Automatic
Shuttle-Change Loom - Grills R - 1956? - (TW2) £2.95
MANRA Pub. No.11 - Adaptation of Lancashire Looms to Weave Man-Made
Fibres - Turton G & Chadwick A - 1959?
- (TW1) £1.75
MANRA Pub. No. 13 - Maxbo Air-Jet Loom - Report on a Swedish
Mill Installation - Greenwood K - (TW1) £1.95
MANRA Pub. No.24 - Study of Performance of Electronic Slub
Catchers - Miller G G - 1962? - (TW1) £1.95
Modern American Finishing Machines - Matthews J F &
Thomas F W - 1951- (TW1) £2.75
Oil Stains in Rayon Goods - 1949 - (TW1) £1.95
Particulars of Fabrics & Yarns Made in the USA - 1951
- (TW1) £3.50
Platt's Cotton Card - Illustrated Machinery booklet - 1952?
- CP263 - (TW1) £2.50
Platt Rotospin Machine - Operative Training Manual - 1974 -
Platt International - Comb bound - (TW1) £5.25
Pressure-Bar Drafting on the Globe Drawframe - Booklet CP567
- (TW1) £2.25
Research & the Mill Man - Toy F C - 1951 - (TW1) £1.75
Selvedge Troubles and How to Avoid Them 1946 - (TW2) £2.50
Some Aspects of the Swiss Textile Industry - Various - 1949
- (TW1) £3.75
Some Trends in the Continuous Processing of Cellulosic
Textiles Fargher & Thomas - 1947 -
(TW2) £2.25
Some Reflections on Uniform Costing Methods - Robson L W
& Hodgson H - 1951 - (TW1) £1.50
Shirley Institute Bulletin 1962 complete (6 issues) (TW2) £5.95
Shirley Institute Bulletin 1963 complete (6 issues) (TW2) £5.95
Shirley Institute Bulletin 1964 complete (6 issues) (TW2) £5.95
Shirley Institute Bulletin Apr 1965 & Oct 1966 (2
issues) (TW2) £0.95
Shirley Institute Pamphlet No. 60 - Guide for Shirley
Institute Literature - 1922-1953 - Guide for Manufacturers - Vincent J J - 1953
- (TW1) £3.95
Shirley Institute Pamphlet No. 62 A Finishers Guide to
Shirley Institute Literature - 1922-1954 - Guide for Manufacturers - 1955 -
(TW2) £3.95
Shirley Institute Pamphlet No. 76 - Guide for Shirley
Institute Literature - 1922-1959 - Spinners & Doublers - 1960 - (TW1) £4.95
Shirley Institute Pamphlet No. 81 Survey of the Literature
and Patents Relating to Bulked Continuous Filament Yarns Hutton / Morris -
1963 - (TW2) £2.95
Shirley Institute Pamphlet No. 83 Scouring and Bleaching
Summary of Institutes Work 1924-1963 -
1964 - (TW) £2.95
Shirley Institute Pamphlet No. 84 - Survey of Continuous
High Temperature Dyeing Methods in Western Europe - 1964 - (TW1) £2.25
Shirley Institute Pamphlet No. 103 - Variations in Dyed
Shade of False-Twist Textured Nylon 6.6 Yarns - 1970 - (TW1) £2.50
Shirley Lecture Series No.4 - Cotton Waste Spinning -
Charnley F - 1947 - (TW1) £1.95
Shirley Lecture Series No.6 - Systematic Loom Overlooking -
Thomas I H - 1946 - (TW1) £1.75
Shirley Lecture Series No.7 - Some General Observations on American Finishing - Fargher
R G - 1948 - (TW1) £1.75
Systematic Loom Overlooking - Thomas I H - BCIRA - Pamphlet
No.64 - 1955 - (TW1) £1.75
Survey & Investigation of Shrinkage in Use of Boiler
Suits made from Pre-Shrunk Drills & Denims
- BCIRA - Pamphlet No.68 - 1957
- (TW1) £1.95
Textiles & Clothing : Sunset Industries? - GLC 1986
- (TW1) (TW2) £1.50
Textile Month Special Exhibition Preview - Jan 1989 - (TW2) £1.25
Textile Progress Vol.6
Nos. 1 to 3 (3) - 1974 - (TW2) £5.95
Textile Progress Vol.8
No. 4 (Narrow Fabrics by Turner)
- 1976 - (TW2) £5.95
Textile Progress Vol.15
Nos. 1 to 2 (combined) - Woollen
Yarn Manufacture - (TW2) £4.50
The Industry & the Oil-Stain Problem - BCIRA - Pamphlet No.79 - 1961 - (TW1) £2.95
Theory of Winding in Centrifuge Spinning Mack C (Reprint from Quart. Journal of Mechanics & Appl. Maths.) 1956 - £1.50
WIRA Publication 216 - Account of WIRA Work on Milling -
1961 - (TW1) £1.50
WIRA Publication 223 - Scouring of Woollen & Worsted
Piece Goods - 1964 - (TW1) £2.50
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