Woollen and Worsted Manufactures
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An encyclopedia article on the woollen and worsted industries as they stood in the mid-19th century. It distinguishes clothing-wools from combing-wools and gives a brief history from antiquity. It then describes the processing stages: sorting, scouring, willying, teazling with the gig-mill, cloth shearing, hand and machine combing, the breaking-frame and roving. It closes with sections on regional varieties of the trade and on employment and value statistics. Illustrations show a gig-mill, a cloth-shearing machine, a combing-wheel and a roving machine.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1867
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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