Philadelphia Textile School Student Notebook, Including Fabric Samples

TRAUT, Frederick V. (Philadelphia Textile School)

Editore: Phipps Loose Leaf Company, Philadelphia, 1939

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Manuscript notebook. Phipps Loose Leaf Company cloth-covered three-ring notebook with a keystone "PTS" (Philadelphia Textile School) label on cover. Octavo. Owner signature and address of Frederick V. Traut on front pastedown and divider. Approximately [230]pp., consisting of notes and fabric analysis forms. Notes are written rectos only on Philadelphia Textile School / Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art lined sheets, mostly in ink, with almost every recto filled with notes and math equations in a legible hand. Fabric analysis forms are bifoliums completed in ink with 11 fabric samples attached or laid in. (These forms were used to calculate total ounces warp per yard and total ounces filling per yard.) Notebook with moderate wear and soil, metal three-ring binder somewhat oxidized, overall very good. Frederick V. Traut's notebook during his time at the Philadelphia Textile School. The notebook includes chapters on vocabulary, elementary weaving, elementary textile calculations and fabric analysis (first and second year), sample problems, "Fancy Textures" (including a page dedicated to "True and Art Silk"), relative diameter of threads, changing texture, finding the weight per square yard from a loom, double cloth (including "Problems Relating to Double Cloth"), yarn manufacture, and a summary of cotton machinery gearing. A Revised Table of Deniers and Filament Numbers of American Rayon Yards dated April, 1939 and laid in at the rear gives us our approximate date. The Philadelphia Textile School was founded in 1884. After a couple of name changes it became Philadelphia University and in 2017 merged with Thomas Jefferson University and is now known as Jefferson. After graduation, Traut had a long career with a Philadelphia dye company. Material related to the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists note several times over the years that he was employed by Globe Dye Works. He was the recipient of the association's 1978 Harold C. Chapin Award, awarded to a member who has contributed outstanding service to the organization. An interesting notebook with plenty of information on mid-Century textile education and production.

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• Titolo: Philadelphia Textile School Student Notebook, Including Fabric Samples
• Editore: Phipps Loose Leaf Company, Philadelphia
• Data di pubblicazione: 1939
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Americana