Wool: The World's Comforter
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A 1922 trade survey of the wool industry from raw fiber to finished cloth, published by the Dry Goods Economist. Twelve chapters cover the history of wool and of wool manufacture, sheep breeds, world production, classification and marketing, carding, combing, spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing, shoddy, and mohair, alpaca and other fibers. The last chapter is a dictionary of wool fabrics (e.g. broadcloth, covert, kersey, tweed, zibeline). Twelve photographs show shearing, wool warehouses, sorting, carding, spinning, weaving and finishing machinery in mills.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 94
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