New Clothes from Old
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A short magazine article from 1902 explaining how most manufactured wool cloth contains reclaimed fiber called shoddy, made by shredding old rags in a machine called the "devil" and respinning them with new yarn. It traces the development of the industry from mid-nineteenth-century Yorkshire, notes Dewsbury as the center of the rag trade, and mentions byproducts such as oil, prussiate of potash, flock, and the higher-grade "mungo."
- Type
- Article
- Date
- April 5, 1902
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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