Carding
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A short encyclopedia entry defining carding as the mechanical process of disentangling and aligning cotton, wool, or flax fibres with wire-toothed cylinders before spinning. It describes card clothing, the carding engine attributed to Lewis Paul (1738), the doffer and doffing knife, and how slivers are formed. It also notes the machine arrangements used for wool, cotton, and worsted, and refers readers to Murphy's The Textile Industries and the article on Spinning.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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