The Arlington Mills : a historical and descriptive sketch, with some account of the worsted dress-goods manufacture in the United States (1891)
Boston : Press of Rockwell and Churchill · leaf 82
s, the center of the manufactureof all-wool worsted dress-goods in France, were handweavers. But the march of events has changed all this; formechanical weaving long since reached a perfection such asthe hand loom cannot attain. There is a greater regularityin the product, a smaller waste of… … i . am. 2 li THE ARLINGTON MILLS. 63 worked without muscular effort, dexterity in the repairing ofbroken yarns being the chief requirement of the operative.Women are found to do this particular work with a deftnesswhich men generally lack. From some points of view, the finishing department is even…
Arlington Mills · Woolen and worsted manufacture
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