Cloth
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An 18th-century encyclopedia article on woolen cloth manufacture. It lists twelve marks of good cloth, then describes the process step by step: scouring, oiling and carding the wool, spinning, sizing the warp, weaving on the loom, fulling, raising the nap with teasels, shearing, dyeing, tentering and pressing. It ends by noting that mixed cloths, whose wools are dyed before spinning, are made in much the same way.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1771
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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