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PIECE GOODS
MANUAL.
FABRICS DESCRIBED; TEXTILE, KNIT GOODS,WEAVING TERMS, ETC., EXPLAINED; WITHNOTES ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF SAMPLES.
Compiled and Illustrated, as an Aid to Members of theChinese Maritime Customs Service,
BY
A. E. BLANCO,
Second Assistant, A, Chinese Maritime Customs.
SHANGHAI:
STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT
OF THE
INSPECTORATE GENERAL OF CUSTOMS.
1917.
The following pages represent an attempt to compile,primarily for the benefit of members of the Chinese MaritimeCustoms Service, descriptions of cotton, woollen, and otherfabrics, their weaves and finishes, etc., together with otherinformation concerning terms currently used in the piece goodstrade which are likely to be met with in invoices, applications,or contracts.
This manual does not embrace all textiles known to the trade,but it does cover all those enumerated in the "Revised ImportTariff for the Trade of China," as well as many others. As far aspossible the commonly accepted trade name has been used. Itshould, however, be borne in mind that many fabrics are knownin the trade by a variety of names, so that one branch of the trademay not recognise a name applied to the same fabric by anotherbranch.
The descriptions have been built up from informationobtained first hand from practical weavers, manufacturers, wholesaleand retail merchants, buyers, etc., as well as from personalvisits to mills in the Manchester and Huddersfield districts, andfrom standard works on weaving. To Mr. G. W. Shaw, of BothamHall, Huddersfield, I am indebted for introductions to theprincipal manufacturers in that district, enabling me to go throughsuch mills as those of Mr. A. Whitwam and Messrs. GodfreySykes, where every phase of manufacture from raw materialto finished goods was shown and explained with characteristicYorkshire thoroughness. I am indebted for either informationor actual samples, or both, to:—
Mr. A. F. H. Baldwin, American Commercial Attaché,London.
John Bright & Bros., Limited, Rochdale.
Mr. A. J. Brook, Huddersfield.
Mr. C. W. Bunn, Deputy Appraiser, New York.
Mr. F. Chitham, Director, Selfridge & Co., Limited,London.
Mr. W. E. Dale-Shaw, Huddersfield.
Drey, Simpson, & Co., Limited, Stockport.
"Dry Goods Economist," New York.
W. & C. Dunlop, Bradford.
Fisher & Co., Huddersfield.
Mr. W. R. Gandell, Board of Trade, London.
Horrockses, Crewdson, & Co., Limited, Preston.
W. G. Humphreys & Co., London.
Mr. A. F. Kendrick, Board of Education, London.
The London Chamber of Commerce.
McCaw Allan & Co., Lurgan.
Selfridge &a