An E1 velvet requires considerably more picks per inch than a “common velvet.” A good make will contain 400 or more picks per inch of 60’s or 70’s weft, woven in a 74 Stockport reed with 2-70’s twist.
Sometimes the points where the pile weft intersects are distributed in satin order as in [Fig. 361], but this makes no appreciable difference, as the picks are so piled up on the top of each other that the bindings of the four pile picks are practically in a horizontal line in either of the methods given.
FIG. 361.
FIG. 362.
[Fig. 362] is a design for a velvet with a nine float, and five pile picks to one back pick or “binder,” as they are sometimes termed. This would require a still larger number of picks, and would easily take 500 picks per inch of 70’s weft.
FIG. 363.
A cloth is made with the same length of pile as the above, but with only four picks of pile to each back pick. This pattern requires fifty picks to complete it, as will be seen from [Fig. 363]. The pile in this case will be much more firmly bound into the ground cloth than is the case in [Fig. 362].