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HUCKABACK ,1 the name given to a type of See also:

CLOTH

cloth used for towels. For this purpose it has perhaps been more extensively used in the See also:

LINEN

linen See also:

trade than any other weave. One of the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief merits of a See also:

TOWEL

towel is its capacity for absorbing moisture; See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain and other See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat-surfaced cloths do not perform this See also:

FUNCTION

function satisfactorily, but cloths made with huckabaek, as well as those made with the See also:

HONEYCOMB

honeycomb and similar weaves, are particularly well adapted for this purpose. The See also:

BODY

body or See also:

FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of the cloth is plain and therefore See also:

sound in structure (see designs A and B in figure), but at fixed intervals some of the A B warp threads See also:

FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect

float on the See also:

SURFACE

surface of the cloth, while at the same See also:

time a number of weft threads float on the back. Thus the cloth has a somewhat similar See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance on both sides. Weave A is the See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary and most used huck or huckaback, while weave B, which is usually See also:

WOVEN

woven with See also:

double weft, is termed the See also:

DEVON, EARLS OF

Devon or medical huck. The cloths made by the use of these weaves were originally all linen, but are too often adulterated with inferior See also:

fibres.

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