Velvet
one of the most familiar of what are known as pile fabrics. It is produced by adding to the usual warp and weft threads of plain weaving an additional row of warp yarns which are woven into the ground of the cloth, and passed over wires on the surface. In the of a loop pile the wires are simply drawn out, but for velvet or other cut case of a loop pile the wires are simply on the top of each wire to cut the pile before the wire is withdrawn. Real velvet is made entirely of silk, but a kind is made with a silk face on a cotton basis. is made entirely of silk, but a kind is tended to fabrics in which silk and cotton are mixed throughout. Some of the richen est and most artistic of the many splendid textiles woven on Italian looms in were also made in Spain and Flanders.
Many of these were for ecclesiastical vestments, altar cloths, and the like, as Many of these were for ecclesiastical VENDÉE, LA likewise woven. The effect of a raised pattern in velvet on a plain or figured silk ground is often very beautiful. vet upon velvet, and this too has a fine of a long upon a short pile, called velvet upon velvet, and this too has a fine trial art collections. Velvet is believed vet fabrics are preserved in some industrial art collections. Velvet is believed to have been first made in China. Modern velvets are largely made at Lyons and Crefeld.
American chemist; born in Prince Ed- ward co., Va., Nov. 17, 1856; was grad- American chemist; born in Prince Ed- 1879, and studied at the Universities of uated at the University of Virginia in 1879, and studied at the Universities of Bonn, Göttingen, and Berlin successively in 1879-1880 , 1881, and 1889. In 1900 he was made president of the University of North Carolina and its Professor of Chemistry. His publications include:
Qualitative Analysis" "Manual of (1883); "Short History of Chemistry" (1894); "Development of Periodic Law" ing to Periodic Law" (with Prof. James Lewis Howe, 1898); "Study of the Atom" (1904).