Wool, Manufacture of
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An encyclopedia article on the manufacture of wool, with a short history of the industry from antiquity through medieval Europe, France, England and colonial America. It gives U.S. census statistics for 1860 and 1870 for woollen goods, worsted goods, hosiery and carpets, plus import and export tables. The second half describes in order the processes of woollen manufacture (sorting, scouring, carding, spinning, weaving, fulling, teasling, shearing, pressing) and of worsted manufacture (combing by hand and machine, drawing, roving, spinning), with a note on worsted fabric types and suggested further reading.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1883
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 7
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