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BAGGING , the name given to the textile stuff used for making bags (see also SACKING and See also:

TARPAULIN). The material- used was originally Baltic See also:hemp, while, in the beginning of the 19th See also:century See also:Sunn hemp or See also:India hemp was also employed. See also:Modern requirements See also:call for so many different types of bagging that it is not surprising to find all kinds of See also:fibres used for this purpose. Most bagging is now made from yarns of the jute fibre. The See also:cloth is, in See also:general, See also:woven with the See also:plain weave, and the warp threads run in pairs, but large quantities of bags are made from cloths with single warp threads. In both cases the weave used for the cloth is that shown at A in the figure, but when See also:double threads of warp are used, the arrangement is See also:equivalent to the weave shown at B. The interlacings of the two sets of warp and weft for single and double warp are 0 < shown respectively at C and D, the See also:black marks indicating the warp threads, and the See also:white or blanks showing the weft. The particular See also:style of bagging depends, naturally, upon the See also:kind of material it is intended to hold. The coarsest type of bagging is perhaps that known as " See also:cotton bagging," which derives its name from the fact that it is used in the manufacture of bags for transporting raw cotton from the See also:United States of See also:America. It is a heavy fabric 42 in. wide, and weighs from 2 to 22 lb per yard. A similar, but rather finer make, is used for See also:Sea See also:Island and other See also:fine cotton, and for any See also:species of fibrous material; but for See also:grain, spices, See also:sugar, See also:flour, See also:coffee, manure, &c., the threads of warp and weft must See also:lie closer, and the warp is usually single. For transporting such A C substances as sugar, it is not uncommon to See also:line the bag with See also:paper, which excludes See also:foreign See also:matter, and minimizes the loss.

Although there are large quantities of seamless bags woven in the See also:

loom, the greater See also:part of the cloth is woven in the See also:ordinary way. It is then cut up into the required sizes by See also:hand and by See also:special See also:machines, and afterwards sewn by one of the See also:chain-stitch or straight-stitch bag sewing-machines.

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