Abstract
The comprehensiveness of Mr. Watson's training is reflected from the pages of this book. A student in the Textile Industries departments of the University of Leeds and the Bradford Technical College, and successively head of the Textile Departments at Salford and the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, Mr. Watson has naturally produced a volume which is both broad in outlook and sequential in treatment. In the maze of small weave, effects, for example, it is so easy to degenerate into mere statement and illustration that any writer who can introduce a sequential and reasonable treatment leading to that imaginative insight, which is so much to be desired in the cloth constructor, is to be congratulated. In the future probably more conventional scientific treatment of the structures here referred to will be necessary, for not only do surh matters as combinations and permutations appear, but, as was quite accidentally discovered at the meeting of the Mathematical Association last year, the problem of sateen cloth structure is the problem of atomic grouping in crystal structure.
Textile Design and Colour: Elementary Weaves and Figured Fabrics.
By W. Watson. Second edition, with an Appendix on Standard Yarns, Weaves, and Fabrics. Pp. xi + 436. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1921.) 21s. net.
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B., A. Textile Design and Colour: Elementary Weaves and Figured Fabrics . Nature 110, 74 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110074a0
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