Wool
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An early nineteenth-century encyclopedia article on wool. It describes the fleece and its grades, the best British sheep breeds and attempts to improve British wool, and how wool is cleaned (bouking in a heated urine and water bath), carded and spun. It also covers spinning of warp (chain) and weft (filling) yarns, the Holland-style spinning wheel, and a short outline of finishing steps in British woollen manufacture.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1821
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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