Textiles: a Handbook for the Student and the Consumer

Abstract

THIS book strikes a new note from an educational point of view, and represents a serious attempt to present a course of instruction to students who intend to make some branch of textile work their future business, or who are, or will be, the buyers of textiles for personal or household purposes. Whilst its strongest appeal is to students of the type mentioned, the matter is so arranged that it offers a mass of information to a wide range of readers who are out of touch with technical methods, and yet are seriously concerned and interested about the character of the textile materials they sell, purchase, or use. It fills the wide gap at present existing in the domestic economy course of instruction in our colleges and schools, and as it deals with practically all kinds of fibres and the textiles into which they are made, it presents in a most interesting manner a remarkably concise and exact description of the methods and machinery used for producing the various materials.

Textiles: a Handbook for the Student and the Consumer.

By Mary S. Woolman Ellen B. McGowan. Pp. xi + 428. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 8s. 6d. net.