Example.—If a plain cloth has been made with 36’s yarns, and it is proposed to make a “two and two” twill with the same number of threads per inch, find the counts required to keep the same “firmness.”

Ends + Inters.
in sample cloth.

Ends + Inters.
in proposed cloth.

or

4 + 4

:

4 + 2

√36

: