TEXTILE DESIGNING (Lat. tcxti/is, relat ing to weaving, from text/is, fabric, composition, text, from texere, to weave; connected with Gk.
retool', tch-rfin, carpenter, teekne, art, Skt. tats, to cut, form). That branch of textile manu facturing which is devoted to the construction edge of combining colors and drawing a thorough knowledge of each of the various departments or processes of textile manufacturing (q.v.). The designer must be able to construct fabrics of a required weight. texture, and finish, or for a specific purpose, telling the manufacturer what size of warp and filling to use, how many threads of each to the inch, and what weave will give the required results.
The construction of various weaves is one of the most important features of textile design ing, and an account of weave construction will be found in the article WEAVING. A complete design for a woven fabric must contain at least the following specifications: Number of warp threads to an inch; number of inches wide on loom; number of picks, or filling threads, to an inch ; size of warp and filling yarns and ma terials for same; the weave and the arrangement of the warp thread on the loom-lairness, with full particulars relative to manipulation of materials in the process of manufacturing; the estimated weight of the fabric as woven; the finishing processes it is to be submitted to, to gether with its finished width, weight, and tex ture, that is, the count in warp and filling threads to the inch. When the pattern is to be
worked out in colored threads the arrangement of these must he given; and when the pattern is drawn and possibly colored, then the weave is constructed in such a way as to produce with the woven threads the effect of the drawing as nearly as possible. See Loom; WEAVING; TEX TILE MANUFACTURING,