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Nature volume 122, pages 540–541 (1928)Cite this article

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THIS treatise is a standard work on woven fabric construction, and deals mainly with the technical part of textile design. The third edition contains a useful chapter on the decorative value of artificial silk, and the chapter on gauze and leno weaving has been augmented by descriptions and diagrams of American types of flat steel doups for heald and Jacquard harnesses.

Grammar of Textile Design.

By H. Nisbet. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xi + 553. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1927.) 32s. 6d. net.

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