Woollen Manufacture
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Encyclopedia article on the woollen manufacture from Rees's Cyclopaedia. It covers the history of wool cloth-making from antiquity through medieval Flanders, Spain, Italy and France to its rise in England, with the regulating statutes, wool prices, and tables of cloth production and export. It then describes the processes: sorting and scouring wool, carding, slubbing, spinning on the jenny and mule, weaving on the fly-shuttle loom, fulling or milling, and cropping or shearing. Five engraved plates show the slubbing machine (billy), spinning jenny, shearing machine and carding engine.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 43
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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