This is accomplished by passing the face of the matted cloth against a cylinder covered with sharp pointed teasels which draw out the fibers from the yarn.
The operation of napping is performed by passing the cloth in a tightly stretched condition over a revolving cylinder covered with teasels or steel hooks.
It is quite evident that the twisted teasels are inadequate for the struggle with their tall congeners, or with the surrounding plants.
In the same way double ascidia may be made use of to explain the foliar cups of the teasels and some other plants, as for instance, some European snakeroots (Eryngium maritimum and E.
The twisted teasels lose their decussation, but in doing so the leaves are not left in a disorderly dispersion, but a distinct new arrangement takes its place, which is to be assumed as the normal one for the ancestors of the teasel family.
Summing up this description of the hereditary qualities of our twisted teasels and of their mechanical consequences, we may say that the loss of the normal decussation is the cause of all the observed changes.
Compared with the polycephalous poppies my race of twisted teasels is much richer in atavists.
The leaves on the stems of the teasels are disposed in pairs, and the bases of the two leaves of each pair are connate so as to constitute large cups.
In a vast majority of cases 13 leaves are found on 5 circuits, and as we have only to deal with this proportion in the teasels we will not consider others.
In theteasels this screw-arrangement has disappeared, and has been replaced by a decussate grouping.
More than once I have had occasion to deal with the phenomenon of torsions, as exhibited by the teasels and some other plants.
A twisted race of teaselsmight consist of successive generations of tall atavistic individuals, and produce yearly some twisted specimens, which might be destroyed every time before ripening their seeds.
Fasciated hawkweeds and twistedteasels gave the same average constitution of the offspring from highly monstrous, and from apparently wholly normal individuals.
Two instances are the most generally known, those of the wild valerian (Valeriana officinalis) and those of cultivated and wild sorts of teasels (Dipsacus fullonum, D.
Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teaselsin dressing cloth.
Well, as I said, these frames filled with teasels are called handles, and as the gig cylinders are covered all over with handles, it makes kind of a solid bed of teasels.
And this iron frame filled with teasels is called a 'handle'?
It is made into flocks, pieces of teasels and all.
The teasels fill all up with the nap that they dig out of the cloth, so they are only run a little while at a time before they are changed and clean ones put into the gigs.
Those gigs out there don't hurt it much, though, for they use old handles and the teasels are broken down a good deal.
Defn: One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.
Tall, stately teasels stand like sentinels along the way, and the balsamic tarweed spreads its fragrance along the outer edge.
It was supposed that the teasels should not act perpendicularly to the weft, but obliquely or circularly upon the face of the cloth.
Into these intervals are adjusted, with proper precautions, 16 frames bearing the teasels which are to act upon the cloth.
The natural teasels are the balls which contain the seeds of the plant called Dipsacus fullorum; the scales which form the balls, project on all sides, and end in sharp elastic points, that turn downwards like hooks.
Mr. Joseph Cliseld Daniell, having stretched the cloth upon smooth level stones, teaselsthem by hand.
Those who have lived where teasels grow will understand this illustration.
For raising, the teasels are fixed in rows on a large revolving drum, and the piece to be treated is drawn lengthways underneath the drum, being guided by rollers or rods so as to just touch the teasels as they sweep past.
In place of the steel wire brushes it is the usual practice to employ teasels for the treatment of woollen goods.
The teasels were mounted on a pair of small rectangular frames with handles; and from this device developed the familiar small hand card (see fig.
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