An encyclopedia article on manufactures made from animal and human hair. It covers weaving horse-hair cloth (dyeing with logwood and copperas, the two-person loom, hair used as weft), crinoline, and sacking and carpets from other hairs. It also covers felting, stuffing hair, sorting hair and making brushes and artists' pencils, and ornamental hair-work, wigs and the hair trade in Britain and France.