Kinne, Helen · New York: The Macmillan company · leaf 205
bers are leftand are called line;and the combed-outfibers are called tow.This first combingprocess is sometimescalled roughing in-stead of hackling. The line is then combed again ina big machine which removes any loose tow. Tow isoften put in a carding machine and made into yarnfor coarser purposes… … Fig. hi. — The flax wheel. REPAIRING LINEN 193 the bundles of flax yarn are spread and overlapped asthey enter the machine. Now you know how the yarnbegins to be made of continuous length. The flaxcomes from this machine in a rope and is somethinglike the cotton rope or roving as it leaves the…
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