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Kinks on wool carding and spinning

Hutton, Clarence, b. 1881. comp · 1912 · Boston, Mass., Lord & Nagle Co · 4 pictures

A trade handbook of practical advice on wool carding and spinning, compiled by Clarence Hutton and published by Lord & Nagle in Boston in 1912 for mill overseers and machine operators. Halftone views of carding and spinning machinery sit alongside supplier advertisements with circular trademarks, lettered barrels, and small engraved diagrams of yarn twist and slubbing, useful for machine silhouettes, roundel emblems, and period industrial display lettering.

Woolen and worsted manufacture

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