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Digital Archive of Documents Related to Glossaries and Dictionaries

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Posselt's Textile Journal

Dictionary of Technical Terms Relating to the Textile Industry, Part 2, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, 1907, 1 page. Posted February 17, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 464 KB PDF

Dictionary of Technical Terms Relating to the Textile Industry, Part 3, Posselt, E. A. Posselt's Textile Journal, 1907, 2 pages. Posted February 18, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 732 KB PDF

Weaver

Weaving in Many Languages, Allen, Helen Louise. Weaver, Vol. 3 No. 1 (January 1938), 2 pages. Note: PDF provided by Judith Combs. Posted September 2, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 196 KB PDF

books

---. A Cotton Fabrics Glossary, Frank P. Bennett, 1907, 359 pages. Posted August 10, 2001. CD (CWDA03). SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 12.0 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 11.9 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 11.2 MB PDF.

Chittick, James and E. A. Posselt. A Glossary of Silk Terms, Including a Short History of Silk, its Origin, Culture and Manufacture, Cheney Brothers, 1915, 95 pages. Note: 2-up. Posted June 24, 1999. CD (CWDA01). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.6 MB PDF

Schlomann, Alfred. Multilingual Dictionary of Spinning, Lewenz & Wilkinson, 1925, 958 pages. Note: Volume XV in the series "Illustrated Technical Dictionaries in Six Languages: English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish". More like a (very large) multilingual glossary than a dictionary. Robotic scanned images provided by Kris Bruland. Posted May 9, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 10.9 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 10.9 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 11.3 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 11.2 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 11.7 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 11.7 MB PDF. Part 7: File size 10.3 MB PDF. Part 8: File size 10.2MB PDF.

Schlomann, Alfred. Multilingual Dictionary of Weaving and Woven Fabrics, Lewenz & Wilkinson, 1925, 718 pages. Note: Volume XVI in the series "Illustrated Technical Dictionaries in Six Languages: English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish". More like a (very large) multilingual glossary than a dictionary. Posted October 8, 2001. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 7.6 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 7.9 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 7.4 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 7.4 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 7.4 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 11.5 MB PDF. Part 7: File size 12.1 MB PDF. Part 8: File size 11.8 MB PDF.

monographs

Tidball, Harriet D. Weaver's Word Finder, Shuttle Craft Guild, 1953, 49 pages. Note: Copyright expired. Posted May 4, 2005. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 5.9 MB PDF

documents created for online publication

Demoule, Philippe. Le Dictionaire de la Soierie I: Glossaire [Dictionary of Silk Making: Glossary I], 71 pages. Posted March 5, 2002. FIRST PAGE. File size 524 KB PDF

Demoule, Philippe. Le Dictionaire de la Soierie II [Dictionary of Silk Making: Glossary II], 72 pages. Posted May 24, 2002. FIRST PAGE. File size 416 KB PDF

other

Pamphlets

---. Swedish-English Word List of Textile Terms, 8 pages. Posted June 21, 2000. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 429 KB PDF

Bell, Anita. Spanish Weaving Terms, March 29, 2003, 1 page. Posted April 1, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 20 KB PDF

Hayes, Marie C. Swedish-English Weaving Glossary, 27 pages. Posted January 25, 2001. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.1 MB PDF

Ringler, Aina. Finnish-English Weaving Glossary, 14 pages. Posted July 23, 2000. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 579 KB PDF

Veren, Doris. Swedish-English Weaving Glossary, 16 pages. Posted July 14, 2001. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 3.1 MB PDF

Yoshida, Kiju. [Japanese-English Weaving Glossary], Dai Nihon Orimono Kyokai, 1903, 5 pages. Note: From the book Orimono soshiki hen. Reads from back to front. Posted April 17, 2004. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 500 KB PDF

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