A French encyclopedia article on cotton and cotton spinning from a dictionary of arts, manufactures and agriculture. It covers the botany and cultivation of the cotton plant, harvesting, ginning (roller gin and saw gin), and the history of spinning machinery (Jenny, throstle, mule-jenny, self-acting). It then describes the preparation and spinning sequence: opening and cleaning, batting, carding, drawing, roving frames, continuous and mule spinning, with many engraved machine figures. It ends with a short section on cotonisation, the attempt to make cotton-like fibre from hemp and flax.

Type

Article

Date

1891

Language

French

Pages

22