Wool and Carpet Manufactures
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Chapter XXVII of an early twentieth-century industrial encyclopedia, surveying the American wool manufacturing industry around 1900. It covers woollen goods, worsted goods, felt goods and yarns, with census statistics on mills, employees, looms, spindles and output, plus tariff effects and comparison with English practice. The final sections describe the carpet industry and carpet weaving, explaining how Wilton, Brussels, tapestry, velvet, Axminster, moquette and ingrain carpets are constructed.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1906
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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