Linen
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An encyclopaedia article on linen from the London Encyclopaedia, covering the spinning of flax and hemp from the spindle and distaff through the one-thread wheel and flyer wheel to the 1806 Clarke and Bugby patent for a multi-spindle hand-worked spinning machine. It also treats bleaching chemicals (barilla, pearl-ash, weed ashes, with Kirwan's analyses), starch-based washing colors, laundry apparatus, and the history and regulation of the linen trade in Ireland and Britain, including stamping and excise rules. A plate of linen machinery and statistical tables of linen imports and exports for 1826 are included.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1829
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 18
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