Cloth, Woollen
Sample pages
Page 4, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
An encyclopedia article on woollen cloth manufacture from a London encyclopaedia of 1829. It opens with the etymology of 'cloth' and literary quotations, then sets out the qualities of good woollen cloth. It describes wool preparation (scouring, oiling, the wool-mill or devil, scribbling and carding), spinning on the jenny, fulling or milling, and finishing by gigging, shearing and cropping. Engraved plates show a carding engine, spinning jenny, gig machine and cloth-shearing machinery, and the article ends with legal notes on wool export restrictions.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1829
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 16
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »