Day at a Leeds Woollen-Factory
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An illustrated article from the Penny Magazine supplement of November 1843 describing a visit to a large woollen cloth factory in Leeds (Messrs. Gott's Bean Ing works). It sets the history of Leeds and the West Riding against the older West of England cloth districts, distinguishes woollen from worsted goods and factory from domestic systems, then follows the processes: wool sorting, scouring, carding, slubbing, spinning, weaving, burling, fulling, drying, raising with teasels, cropping and finishing. It closes with the history of the Leeds cloth-market halls. Engravings show the Coloured-Cloth Hall, fulling stocks, hand-raising and teasel fixing.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- November 1843
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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