Cow Hair, mixed with a suitable fibre like wool, is spun into the filling for coarse ingrain carpets, and similar coarse fabrics, as backing-filling for cloakings, etc.
Cylinder, a part of the Jacquard machine,[7], [9], [16]
Damask, a fabric originally made at Damascus, and composed of rich silk. The name is at present applied to various textile fabrics composed of cotton, linen, etc., which are of common household use, as table-covers, towels, etc.
Designing Paper for the different textile fabrics,[103]
Divisions of a comber-board,[22]
Dobbies, Index machines, Witches, etc., are small Jacquard machines, or machines constructed upon its principles.
Dobby Card-punching Machine,[86]
Double Cloth, selection of designing paper for,[106]
---- Two separate fabrics fastened together in the process of weaving. The advantages of double cloth are various, amongst which we find: To produce a heavier and thicker cloth; using materials to their best advantage; producing effects impossible to be procured in single cloth, etc. There are three divisions of double cloth:—
a, using one system of warp and two systems of filling;
b, using two systems of warp and one system of filling;
c, using two systems of warp and two systems of filling.
Double-lift Double-cylinder Jacquard Machine, principle of construction, advantages over the single-lift, and method of operation,[69]