8 collections related to Textile design

Treatise on textile manufacturing by Spanish engineer Albert Blanxart. In it, he explained and illustrated the processes for manufacturing various styles and colors of fabrics, all of which are illustrated with original cloth swatches. There are 77 handwritten pages with diagrams and 24 additional leaves with original textile samples and diagrams. The text is written in Spanish. Albert Blanxart is a Spanish engineer. Less

The Frères Koechlin Trade Catalog collection consists of one trade catalog (23.7 x 15cm, 32 pp., 8 color plates) with historic illustrations of women's dresses from 1810-1914. Along with eight fashion prints, the catalog contains the locations of their factory and stores; contact information for sales representatives in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East; and cost and measurement conversions.Frères Koechlin began in 1746 with a printed textile factory in Mulhouse. Less

The George T. Peoples Notebook on Textile Design, 1921, includes Peoples’s course notes from the classes Senior Designing and Senior Dyeing. Peoples attended North Carolina State College of Agricultural Engineering, now North Carolina State University. He attended the Textile Department in the School of Engineering, which became its own school in 1925 and is now called the Wilson College of Textiles. Less

The collection contains three mimeographed textbooks used by Malcolm Eugene Campbell when he was a student at New Bedford Textile School and later as an instructor at Clemson College. The books cover various textiles related topics including jacquard design, knitting, yarn manufacturing, and carding and spinning calculations. Hand drawn and colored sketches and patterns, and fabric samples are included. Also included are several notes and letters found within the textbooks. Malcolm Eugene Campbell (1902-1978) graduated from the New Bedford Textiles School in 1922 and taught textiles engineering at Clemson College (later University) before joining the United States Department of Agriculture as a cotton research technologist. He was appointed Dean of the School of Textiles at North Carolina State College (later University) in 1943 and retired in 1967. Less

This collection contains pages from a notebook for classes Textiles 341 and 342, Fabric Design and Analysis, taught by J.A. Porter. The notebook includes fabric samples, design sheets with drawn and colored weaving designs, and fabric analysis sheets containing numerical analysis of fabric. It also includes laboratory reports, dated October and November 1950, submitted by Paul L. Cabrey. Paul L. Cabrey of Nabertha, Pa., was a student in the School of Textiles, North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering. Textiles 341 and 342, Fabric Design and Analysis, was a course required of juniors in textile manufacturing. The course covered construction of fancy weaves, fabrics backed with warp or filling, fabrics ornamented with extra warp or extra filling, regular and fancy piques, and methods of producing new designs. Students learned to analyze samples of fancy fabrics for design, drawing-in draft, reed plan and chain plan and to calculate how to reproduce fabrics when only a small sample was available. Less

This collection contains material documenting the personal and professional life of Thomas Nelson, an internationally renowned textile expert and educator. Included are correspondence, photographs, textile samples, clippings from print media, class and lab notes, and Nelson's various published works. Of special interest in this collection is correspondence with then-Democratic presidential nominee Franklin Delano Roosevelt, correspondence with a North Carolina State alumnus serving in World War II, and a signed 4th edition of Nelson's book, Practical Loom Fixing. Thomas Nelson (1872-1953) worked as educator, administrator, and textile technologist. He served the Textiles Department at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) from 1901 to 1949, originally as an instructor, then Head of the Textiles Department, and later as the first Dean of the School of Textiles. Less