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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. Japanese text reads from top to bottom and right to left, even where accompanied by English text. Posted April 17, 2004. CD (HWDA07). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 500 KB PDF


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