Cloth
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Two pages from an early encyclopedia (Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1803) with the entry for CLOTH. It gives the dictionary senses of the word with literary quotations, cross-references to related entries (asbestos cloth, linen, bark cloth), and the qualities of good woollen cloth. A longer section describes how woollen cloth was made, from scouring, oiling, carding and spinning the wool through warping, sizing and weaving on a treadle loom to fulling, teasel raising, shearing, dyeing, tentering and pressing.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1803
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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