A Handbook of Textiles

Third Edition

Ann M. Collier

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The following illustrations are reproduced by courtesy of Courtaulds Ltd:
Figs. 2.5, 3.1-8, 3.11, 3.13, 3.15, 4.4-8, 4.10-13, 4.17-18, 5.4-6, 6.3-4, 6.9, 7.15-16, 8.1-4, 9.5-11, 10.3, 15.1-9;
also the photographs on pp. 118-25.

Copyright c 1980 Ann M. Collier
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First published 1970
Second Edition 1974
Third Edition 1980

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ISBN 0 08 024974 4