28·84200
= price for 40 yards
2·884200
= 10 per cent. added for high picks
31·726200
Total.
From this must be deducted 10 per cent., as per agreement, which will give 28·5535 pence as the actual price to be paid for weaving this piece of cloth.
The following example includes the allowance for narrow cloth woven in broad looms:—
Example.—Find the weaving price for 38-inch cloth woven in a 48-inch reed space loom, 50 reed, 507 dividend, 50 change wheel, 75 yards long, 32’s twist, 36’s weft.
2d.