Manufacture of Wool, Silk, Cotton and Flax, ancient and Modern
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An 1846 magazine article, a review of Harper & Brothers' 'History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and other Fibrous Substances', surveying the history of the wool, silk, cotton and linen industries from antiquity to the 1840s. It argues from a free-trade viewpoint that protective tariffs and monopolies held back manufacturing, using the histories of silk in Europe and Spitalfields, linen in Ireland, wool in England and cotton in Britain and the United States. It includes statistical tables of raw material consumption, cotton mills in the US, and British exports. It does not deal with weaving technique.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1846
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 7
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