Serge
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An encyclopedia article describing how serge cloth was made in London in the early nineteenth century. It covers selecting, scouring, oiling, combing and carding wool, spinning warp and weft, sizing the warp, and weaving on a four-treadle loom. It ends with fulling with fuller's earth and soap, tentering, dyeing, shearing and pressing.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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