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Texturing is increasingly important in textile production, not only
in yarns for weaving and knitting fashion products, but also for
carpets, furnishing fabrics and a variety of technical textiles.
This book covers all the major techniques including
twist-texturing, jet-screeen texturing, false-twist process, BCF
processes and air-jet texturingare in detail. Combining a
comprehensive review of the physics and chemistry of texturing with
a thorough, illustrated description of current practice, this book
is invaluable for yarn and fabric manufacturers, textile scientists
and students on textile science and technology courses.
Each novel in this thrilling series of historical mysteries is
based on a real unsolved Tudor crime. This second instalment
reunites readers with its star, London goldsmith Thomas Treviot.
The Real Crime Hans Holbein, King Henry VIII's portrait painter,
died in the autumn of 1543. A century later a chronicler reported
that the artist had succumbed to plague, yet there is no
contemporary evidence to support this. Suspicions have been raised
over the centuries, but the mystery of what actually happened
remains unsolved to this day. Our Story Young London goldsmith
Thomas Treviot is awaiting a design for a very important jewellery
commission from Hans Holbein. When the design fails to turn up,
Thomas sends a servant to track Holbein down, only to discover that
the painter has disappeared. In his hunt for Holbein and the lost
design, Thomas is led into a morass of dangerous political
intrigue, Spanish spies and courtiers that is more treacherous than
he could ever have anticipated...
Starring Thomas Treviot, each novel in this thrilling new series of
historical mysteries is based on a real unsolved Tudor crime. 1536.
In the corrupt heart of Tudor London a killer waits in the
shadows... The Real Crime Before dawn on a misty November morning
in 1536, prominent mercer Robert Packington was gunned down as he
crossed Cheapside on his way to early morning mass. It was the
first assassination by handgun in the history of the capital and
subsequently shook the city to its core. The identity of his
assassin has remained a mystery. Our Story Thomas Treviot is a
young London goldsmith and a close family friend of Robert
Packington. Through his own upstanding social connections - and
some less upstanding acquaintances he has made along the way -
Thomas launches a dramatic investigation into Packington's death.
As Thomas searches for revenge, he must travel from the golden
heart of merchant London, to the straw-covered backstreets of
London's poorest districts before reaching the country's seat of
power: the court of King Henry VIII. Before long he is drawn into a
dark conspiracy beyond his wildest imaginings and claiming justice
for his friend starts to look impossible. Especially when Thomas
realises that Robert wasn't the man he thought he knew... In the
first of a new series investigating real unsolved Tudor crimes,
D.K. Wilson brings the streets of Tudor London to spectacular life
as Thomas Treviot faces a fight to bring the truth to light in the
corrupt world of Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII.
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