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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 10 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
e clamp. A tool for giving the proper pitch to a new axlespindle, or for straightening one which is bent. Ax′minster Car′pet. A carpet with a flax or jute chain and a woolen or worsted filling which is formed into a pile. The patent Axminster carpet, as made at Glasgow, is made first as a woven fringe, which is afterwards adapted to a thick flax backing. The carpet is named from the town of Axminster, Devonshire, England, where the manufacture was formerly carried on. It has beenAxminster, Devonshire, England, where the manufacture was formerly carried on. It has been discontinued at that place. It is of the Turkey variety. The linen chain or warp is placed perpendicularly between two rolls or beams, one of which carries the warp, and the other the finished carpet. Small tufts or bunches of different colored worsted or woolen are tied to or fastened under the warp; and when one row of these tufts has been completed, a linen weft thread is thrown in and firmly rammed down. Another row of tufts is then knotted in, the selection of colors being such as to
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ufactory being established at Chaillot, near Paris. Workmen from France introduced carpet-making into England about 1750. A carpet-factory was established at Axminster, 1755, the year of the Lisbon earthquake. There are several characteristic processes in the manufacture of carpets. 1. The web is formed of a warp and wefthe pattern. The tufts are locked in position by a shoot of the weft, the crossing of the warp, and the beating of the batten or lathe. The Persian, Turkey, and Axminster carpets are thus formed. 2. The web is formed of a warp and weft, as stated above, and the colored worsted yarns are laid along with the linen warp, and drawnlaces when woven into a fabric. 9. A pile is cemented to a backing-fabric. See cemented-back carpet. For the varieties of carpets see the following: — Axminster carpet.Ingrain carpet. Brussels carpet.Kidderminster carpet. Cemented-back carpet.Persian carpet. Chenille carpet.Pile carpet. Damask carpet.Printed carpet.