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Cotton manufacture: a manual of practical instruction in the processes of opening, carding, combing, drawing, doubling, and spinning of cotton, and the methods of dyeing and preparing goods for the market

Lister, John, 1920- · 1894 · London, C. Lockwood · 69 pictures

A technical manual on cotton manufacture by John Lister, published in London by Crosby Lockwood in 1894 for mill workers, overseers and textile students. The 69 plates are wood-engraved three-quarter views of looms, combers, mules and finishing machines, printed on tinted paper with numbered figure captions, offering dense cast-iron frames, gear wheels, belt pulleys and cross-hatched shading for cutout or overlay work.

Cotton manufacture

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