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Looking for detailed information
about specific machines and processes see our Textile
Leaflets and Manuals page
Have a look at our Textiles
Odds and Ends as well All sorts of textile related artefacts etc.
All books are in very good
to excellent condition unless otherwise stated.
ABC of Smocking & Gauging Bestway
Fashions No.327 (rusty staples) - £1.95 (TH1)
Advances in Textile Processing Volume 1
ed. J E Lynn & JJ Press 1961 Ex-college library but excellent
condition incl. DJ - £9.95
Artificial Silk Handbook - Nasmith F - 2nd
Ed (with original bookmark) - £3.50
Bulk, Stretch and Texture Papers
presented at the 51st Annual Jubilee Textile Institute Conference in
Baden Baden 1966 Soft bound - £5.95
(A3)
Card Grinding in Theory & Practice -
Dronsfield Bros - 2nd Ed - 1922 Very Good Condition - £7.50 (A1)
Card Room Machinery Asa Lees & Co,
Soho Works, Oldham Well illustrated 1926? - £4.50 (TH1)
Card Room Machinery Asa Lees & Co,
Soho Works, Oldham Wall Chart (illustrated) of Gearing of Slubbing,
Intermediate and Roving Frames signed
George Bolt (or Holt??) £9.50 (TH1)
Cards by Platts - 1946 (20 page booklet)
------£7.50 (TH1)
Combing Machinery Asa Lees & Co,
Soho Works, Oldham Well illustrated 1928? - £3.50 (TH1)
Common Sense in Cotton Spinning - Henry A
- 1919 (Used Condn.) £2.50
Cotton Carding Merrill 1955 (Prize
label) - £5.50
Cotton Combing Merrill 1955 (Prize
label) - £5.50
Cotton Doubling & Twisting - Wakefield
S - Section 5 - Clearing & Gassing - PB (Used condition) £3.00 (TW2)
Cotton Doubling & Twisting - Wakefield
S - Section 6 - Reeling, Prep. & Making up (Used condition) ---£3.00 (TW2)
Cotton Doubling & Twisting - Wakefield
S - Section 7 Threads & Their Manufacture (Excellent condition) ---£5.95 (A1)
Cotton Drawing and Roving Merrill 1956
(Prize label) - £5.50
Cotton Opening and Picking Merrill
1954 (Prize label) - £5.50
Cotton Ring Spinning Merrill 1959
£4.95
Cotton Spinning - Marsden R - 1886 ----
£3.75
Cotton Spinning Productivity Team Report
Anglo-American Team on Productivity 1950 - £4.50
Cotton Spinning (2nd Ed) -
Marsden R 188? (used condition, split in spine)------ £2.50
Cotton Spinning Calculations - Thornley T
- 4th Ed - 1911 (Used Condn.) --- £3.50
Cotton Waste - Thornley T - 2nd Ed - 1921
------------------------- £4.50
Cotton World Todd 1927 1st
Edition Excellent condition - £11.50
Cotton World Todd 1927 1st
Edition Good condition ex-library -
£6.50
Cotton Yarn Doubling Productivity Team
Report Anglo-American Team on Productivity 1950 - £4.25
Cotton Year Book 1914 - Textile Mercury -
(L.Used) ------------------- £7.00
Developing Your Hand Knitting Sampling
Dubied No Date - £2.95* (TH1)
Doubling & Winding Machinery Asa
Lees & Co, Soho Works, Oldham Well illustrated 1925? - £4.50 (TH1)
Dyeing & Chemical Technology of
Textile Fibres E R Trotman 1964 3rd Edition (number of
ink-stained pages at front otherwise good) - £3.25
Dyeing & Chemical Technology of
Textile Fibres E R Trotman 1964 4th Edition (Ex-college library but still sound) - £4.25
Dyeing Fibre Blends R C Cheetham - 1st
Edition 1966 ex-library excellent condition (incl. DJ) - £5.95
(A3)
Economics of Fabric Production - Papers
presented at the Symposium in UMIST 1970 Soft bound - £4.95 (A3)
Electric Power Stations Vol 2- Carr T H -
1944 (Used) -------------------- £4.50
Embroidery K Marko 1982 1st
edition (Lovely book with 60 stitches & various projects) -------------
£3.25 (750g)
Evolution of a textile Machine Works :
Boltons Rise & Progress - Dobson & Barlow Complementary Copy - ND
------ £7.00
Fibre Structure J W S Hearle & R H
Peters - (Lightly used condition but DJ
is not so good) ------------ £7.50 (A3)
Fibres for Fabrics - Garrett A E -
(lightly used condn.) --------------- £3.50
Fine Cotton Spinning - Lomax I W - 1913
-------------------------- £4.50
Folk Costumes of the World Harrold R
Blandford Series 1978 1st Edition - £3.95
Glossary of Textile Terms - Curtis H P -
1921 --------------------- £5.75
Hand Loom Weaving - Hooper L - 1920 (Used)
---------------------- £7.50 >
Healds for Weaving - Laird I - 1st Ed -
1949 ------------------------- £3.50
Opening Cleaning and Picking Z S Szaloki
- Inst. Series on Textile Processing Vol. 11 1st Edition - 1976 Ex-college library but excellent
condition - £9.95 (A3)
High-Speed Carding & Continuous Card
Feeding Z S Szaloki - Inst. Series on Textile Processing Vol. 2 1st
Edition - 1977 Ex-college library but
excellent condition - £6.95 (A3)
High-Speed Carding & Continuous Card
Feeding Z S Szaloki - Inst. Series on Textile Processing Vol. 2 1st
Edition - 1977 Excellent condition -
£8.95 (A3)
Identification of Textile Materials -
Text.Inst. - 3rd Ed - 2nd Reprint - 1954 - £1.95 (A3)
Illustrated Dressmaking Guide Singer
Sewing Machine Co. No date (Price 2/-)
- £2.95 (TH1)
Impact Phenomena in Textiles W J Lyons -
1st Edition 1963 ex-library excellent condition (incl.
DJ) - £6.95 (A3)
International Exhibition for Textile
Innovation Programme Manchester 1989 - £2.25 (TW2)
Journal of Br.Assn.of Managers of Textile
Works (Lancs) Vol 3 1911-12 HB --- £3.75
Journal of Br.Assn.of Managers of Textile
Works (Lancs) Vol 5 1913-14 HB --- £3.75
Journal of Br.Assn.of Managers of Textile
Works (Lancs) Vol 7 1915-16 HB --- £3.75
Journal of Br.Assn.of Managers of Textile
Works (Lancs) Vol 8 1916-17 HB --- £3.75
Journal of Br.Assn.of Managers of Textile
Works (Lancs) Vol 11 1920-21 HB -- £3.75
Journal of Textile Institute - 1919-1965
complete Hard Bound - (2 volumes have damaged binding) ----- Offers
Lace & Lace Making Bullock, A-M
Batsford 1981 1st Edition ex-library excellent condition
incl. DJ - £5.50 (TH1)
Linked by the Same Thread - Various - 1986 - T.H.I.S & T.H.T.U.C. (TW2) - £2.75
Machinery Calculations (M/c Cat.) -
Arundel Coulthard & Co. - 1920 - Stockport - with illustrations. ------
£7.50
Machinery Calculations - Dobson &
Barlow - 1913 (Used but V.good.) -------£5.00
Man-Made Fibres R W Moncrieff Ex-college library but excellent condition
4th Edition - 1966 - £9.50
(A3)
Manual of
Textile Management Principles and Practice - Dudeja V D - 1984 Reprint (TW2) - £1.75
Manufacture of Raschel Wool & Cotton
Outerwear - Rotenstein C - 1960 ---- £3.00
Marketing of Textiles Reavis Cox
Textile Foundation Excellent condition 1938 - £11.50 (A3)
Modern Cotton Economics - Thornley T -
1923 ---------------------------£4.50
Modern Cotton Carding Combing & Preparing
Machinery (Illustrated Cat.) - Platt Bros. - 1930? (L/L) ----- £9.50
Modern Opening & Lap Forming Machinery
- Platt Bros. - 1951 (L/L) -------£7.50
Narrow Fabric Weaving A Thompson & S
Bick 1st Edition 1952 - ex-college library but excellent condition
incl. DJ - £5.75 (A1)
Nonwoven Textiles R Krcma 1st
Edition in English 1967 - ex-college library but excellent condition incl.
DJ - £5.75 (A1)
On Present Development of Power Loom
Weaving of Silk at Lyons Wardle T 1893 (much of spine covering missing)
ex-library - £6.60
Opening and Picking - (Saco Lowell
Handbook Volume 1) - 3rd Edition 1946 - £5.25 (TH1)
Opening Machinery Asa Lees & Co,
Soho Works, Oldham Well illustrated 1925? - £4.50 (TH1)
Overlookers & Students Guide to the
Ring Spinning Frame - Booth N - 1912 (used condn.) ----£4.50
Physical Methods of Investigating Textiles
ed Meredith & Hearle 1st Edition 1959 ex-library
excellent condition (incl. DJ) - £6.95 (A3)
Physical Properties of Textile Fibres W
E Morton & J W S Hearle 1st Edition 1962 ex-college library
very good condition (but DJ has some
damage) - £7.95 (A3)
Pictorial Guide to Modern Home Needlecraft
- Fabric Bound - ND - £5.75
Platt International Spare
Parts Catalogue 3rd Edition 1973 - £0.95 (TH1)
Practical Ring Spinning - Mills L J - 1922
(used condn.) -----------------£3.00
Practical Warp Gaiting - Middlebrook W -
(1st Ed) - 1948 --------------£3.00
Productive Costs in Cotton Spinning Mills - Hardman A H - 1912 (used) --£6.50 >
Quality Control & Reliability A G
Robertson 1st Edition 1971 Excellent condition - £3.25 (A3)
Rapid Calculations - Russell A H
- 1925 - 3rd Ed ----------------------------£3.50
Ring Spinning Frames Asa Lees & Co,
Soho Works, Oldham Well illustrated 1926? - £2.95 (TH1)
Rings and Travellers 1944-1957 Eadie D
Eadie Bros 1957 - £2.50
Silk Industry - Warner F - 1929? - Ex-Lib.
(Spine needs attn.) -------------------£19.50
Small Patchwork Projects - Brondolo B -
1981 - includes templates - £ 4.95 (TH1)
Special Textile Machinery - Stubbs J Ltd -
Early -------------------£7.50
Spinning Calculations Simplified Platts
1951 1st Edition - £4.95 (TW2)
Story of Shirley (Shirley Institute)
1988 1st Edition perfect condition - £9.95
Story of the Evolution of the Spinning
Machine - Dobson B P - 2nd Ed - 1911 (Small stain on front cover) -
£7.50 (A3)
Story of WIRA 1988 1st
edition Perfect condition - £9.95
Students Cotton Spinning (3rd Ed - 13,000)
- Nasmith J - used condn. -------£2.50
Studies in Modern Fabrics Papers
presented at the Diamond Jubilee Textile Institute Conference in London 1970
Hard bound - £8.95 (A3)
Studies in Modern Yarn Production Papers
presented at the 53rd Annual Jubilee Textile Institute Conference in
Stresa 1968 Soft bound - £5.95 (A3)
Study and Evolution of Concentration in UK
Textile Industry Fishwick and Cornu - EU - £5.50
Technical Data on Carding & Combing -
Saco Lowell Shops - 1948 -------£5.50 (TH1)
Technology of the Textile Industry USSR
Textile Institute - 1960 No.5 - (Small stain on front cover) - £5.50 (A3)
The Textile Industries - A Practical Guide
to Fibres, Yarns & Fabrics - Murphy W S ( 8 Vols) (Vol.1 rebound) -
Complete with inserts --------------------------- £32.50
Textile Bleaching Dyeing & Printing
Machinery - Hall A J - 1926 (Ex-Lib) - £15.00
Textile Conservation ed. J E Leene - 1st
Edition 1972 ex-library excellent condition (incl. DJ) - £9.95
(A3)
Textile Costing J Lockwood & A D
Maxwell Textile Foundation Excellent condition 1947 - £9.50 (A3)
Textile Educator - Mills L J - 3 Vols. -
1928 - (lightly used condn.) ------ £18.00
Textile Engineering Processes Nissan 1959
1st Edition - £4.50
Textile Fabrics & their Selection I
B Wingate 5th Edition 1964 (ex-college library very good
condition, but couple of loose pages) - £4.75
(A3)
Textile Fabrics & their Selection I
B Wingate 6th Edition 1970 (ex-college library excellent
condition) - £4.75 (A3)
Textile Progress Vol.16 Bound Edition
with DJ - £5.25
Textile Progress Vol.17 Bound Edition
with DJ - £5.25
Textile World Factfile 1967 - £4.50
Textiles Fiber to Fabric Potter &
Corbman 4th Edition 1967 Good condition generally but a couple
of faults. - £2.95 (A3)
Textiles Students Manual T Welford
1933 1st Edition Ex-library but very good condition
Contains Military Remembrance of Sgt Bert Horrobin label and comment from
Head of Dept of College. - £5.50 (A1)
Treatment of Cotton Previous to carding
H Hill Dobson & Barlow 1928 well illustrated - £5.25 (TW2)
Uniform List of Prices to be Paid to
Weavers in Cotton Man. Industry - 1937 --- £4.50
Uniform List of Prices for Weaving Plains,
Fancies Col.Cloths etc. - 1921 --- £4.50
Waste Machinery Asa Lees & Co, Soho
Works, Oldham Well illustrated 1925? - £5.50 (TH1)
Weavers Wage: Earnings & Collective
Bargaining in the Lancashire Cotton Weaving Industry A comprehensive analysis
and record. E M Grey - Excellent Condition - £11.95 (A3)
Weldon's Encyclopaedia of Needlework -
Weldon - ND - £12.95 (TH1)
Wheldons Business Statistics &
Statistical Method G L Thirkettle 5th Edition 1962 Ex-library
but very good condition - £3.50 (A3)
Wira Collected Practical Problems 1959
Superb book for analysing problems in wool. (Some spotting on cover otherwise
very good.) - £9.95 (A3)
Wool: An Introduction to its Properties, Varieties, Uses and
Production W J Onions 1st edition 1962 ex-library but
excellent condition - £7.50
Wool Research : Volume 2 Physical
Properties - WIRA 1955 Ex-college library but very good condition. - £7.50 (A3)
Wool Research : Volume 3 Testing &
Control - WIRA 1955 Ex-college library but very good condition. - £7.50 (A3)
Wool Research : Volume 4 Carding - WIRA
1955 Ex-college library but very good condition. - £7.50 (A3)
Woollen & Worsted Spinning - Barker A
F - 1922 - used condition. --------------£4.00
Woollen Carding and Spinning - Mackereth L No date ex-library - £4.95 (TH1)
Worsted Drawing and Spinning: Part 1
Drawing H Walker 1st Edition 1954 Ex-college library but
excellent condition incl. DJ - £7.95 (A3)
Woven Stretch & Textured Fabrics B
L Hathorne 1st
Edition 1964 Ex-college library but excellent condition including DJ -
£7.50 (A3)
Yarn Revolution Papers presented at the
60th Annual Jubilee Textile Institute Conference in Harrogate 1976
Soft bound - £5.95 (A3)
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