Cloth
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An encyclopedia article on woollen cloth from Rees's Cyclopedia. It defines cloth, lists the qualities of good superfine cloth, and describes the Wiltshire manufacture step by step: scouring, dyeing, scribbling, carding, slubbing, spinning, warping, sizing, weaving broad-cloth with two weavers, fulling, burling, dressing with teazels and shears, and pressing. It closes with a long summary of English statutes on cloth measurement, sealing, export, stretching, and the regulation of clothiers and weavers.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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