Tow
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A brief encyclopedia entry defining tow as the short fibres produced during scutching and hackling of flax, and the yarns spun from them. It notes that a carding engine or tow card forms the fibres into sliver, which then goes to drawing frames and follows the same steps as line yarn in flax spinning.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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