Kinne, Helen · New York: The Macmillan company · leaf 86
Fig. 45. The cotton carding machine, which cleansthe cotton. MAKING SIMPLE GARMENTS 73 leaves and dust and dirt. As the cotton leaves thismachine, it looks like a big piece (6 ft. wide) of cottonbatting rolled in a large roll. It looks soft and clean.Then the girls watched the men place this roll… … Courtesy oj Leonard & Green, Boston.Fig. 46. — A cotton spinning room. (Fig. 45). Here it was cleaned some more; and sucha wonderful thing happened. As it left the machineinstead of coming out as a lap of the roll of cottonlike it went in, it came out in a long thick coil whichlooked like a…
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