. Elements of technology :. RTS OF COMBINTNG FLEXIBLE FIBRES. 357 Carpeting.—Carpets are thick textures composed wholly orpartly of wool, and wrought by several dissimilar simplest mode is that used in weaving the Venetian car-pets, which is a plain texture, composed of a striped woollenwarp, on a thick woof of linen thread. Kidderminster carpet-ing is composed by two woollen webs, which intersect eachother in such a manner as to produce definite figures. Brusselscarpeting has a basis composed of a warp and woof of stronglinen thread. But to every two threads of linen in the warp,t
. Elements of technology :. RTS OF COMBINTNG FLEXIBLE FIBRES. 357 Carpeting.—Carpets are thick textures composed wholly orpartly of wool, and wrought by several dissimilar simplest mode is that used in weaving the Venetian car-pets, which is a plain texture, composed of a striped woollenwarp, on a thick woof of linen thread. Kidderminster carpet-ing is composed by two woollen webs, which intersect eachother in such a manner as to produce definite figures. Brusselscarpeting has a basis composed of a warp and woof of stronglinen thread. But to every two threads of linen in the warp,there is added a parcel of about ten threads of woollen of dif-ferent colors. The linen thread never appears on the uppersurface, but parts of the woollen threads are from time to timedrawn up in loops, so as to constitute ornamental figures, theproper color being each time selected from the parcel to whichit belongs. A sufficient number of these loops is raised toproduce a uniform surface, as seen in Fig. 5, and to render. them equal, each row passes over a wire, which is subsequentlywithdrawn. In some cases the loops are cut through with theend of the wire, which is sharpened for the purpose so as tocut off the threads as it passes out. In forming the figure, theweaver is guided by a pattern, which is drawn in squares upona paper. Turkey carpets appear to be fabricated upon thesame general principles as the Brussels, except that the textureis all woollen, and the loops larger and always cut. Tapestry.—The name of tapestry is given to certain delicateand complicated fabrics, in which the forms and colors of natu-ral objects are produced with such accuracy, as to resemblefine paintings. The mode of texture used to produce this ef-fect, is in many respects analogous to that by which the finercarpetings are made. The minuteness, however, of the con-stituent parts, causes the sight of the texture to be lost in the 358 ARTS OF COMBINING FLEXIBLE FIBRES. general effect of the pie
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