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Z twill, Z twist

Z twill, Z twist
Z twill, Z twistA square of cloth with two directions on it. The broad lines are the twill, whose angle 45.0° from the warp comes from the setts alone — 24 ends and 24 picks per centimetre. The fine lines are the surface fibres of the warp ends, at 25.3° from the warp because the yarn is twisted 900 turns per metre. Between them is 19.7°, and that is the whole of the rule.19.7° between the fibres and the line — a subdued onetwist and twill run the same way, so the fibres lie along the linewarptwill line 45.0° from the warpfrom 24 × 24 per cmfibres 25.3° from the warpfrom 900 turns/m at 20 texbetween them 19.7°both angles computed, neither drawn by eyeZ/Z

A square of cloth with two directions on it. The broad lines are the twill, whose angle 45.0° from the warp comes from the setts alone — 24 ends and 24 picks per centimetre. The fine lines are the surface fibres of the warp ends, at 25.3° from the warp because the yarn is twisted 900 turns per metre. Between them is 19.7°, and that is the whole of the rule.

1 essay calls twist-and-twill. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the weave its essay argues about.

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