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» Cotton Manufacturing. Part I
   First part of a complete illustrated description of the manufacture of cotton yarns written in 1903 by E.A. Posselt, about cotton cultivation, harvesting, ginning and mixing, including descriptions of the construction of cotton ginning and cleaning machin
   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pea_ctn1_1.pdf

» Cotton Manufacturing. Part II
   Second part of a complete illustrated description of the manufacture of cotton yarns written in 1903 by E.A. Posselt, describing preparatory processes prior to carding, carding technology, machinery and machine settings, and sliver forming prior to combin
   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pea_ctn1_2.pdf

» Kinks on Worsted Combing, Drawing and Spinning
   Reference book about worsted combing, drawing and yarn spinning, compiled from the questions and answers department of the Textile World Record. Published in 1911. Edited by Clarence Hutton.
   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/kinks_4.pdf

» Textile Calculations
   Guide to calculations relating to the construction of yarns and fabrics, including methods for the analysis of cloth. Published early 1900. Author: E.A. Posselt.
   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pea_calc.pdf

» Warp and Weft. Part 1
   Series of articles, reprinted from Wool Knowledge and published by the British Wool Marketing Board in 1967, about wool processing and wool textile manufacturing. Articles about wool scouring, carding and combing, and the spinning of woollen yarns.
   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/warpweft_01.pdf

» Warp and Weft. Part 2
   Series of articles, reprinted from Wool Knowledge and published by the British Wool Marketing Board in 1967, about wool processing and wool textile manufacturing. Articles about worsted yarn spinning.
   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/warpweft_02.pdf

» Warp and Weft. Part 3
   Series of articles, reprinted from Wool Knowledge and published by the British Wool Marketing Board in 1967, about wool processing and wool textile manufacturing. Articles about power loom weaving of woollen and worsted fabrics, the teasels of Sommerset,
   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/warpweft_03.pdf

» Yarn Counts and Calculations
   Handbook and reference for students, spinners, manufacturers and merchants from a series of Oxford Technical Manuals first published in 1921 by Thomas Woodhouse, providing an explanation of twenty-two different systems of counting yarns which were commonl
   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/wt_yarn.pdf