A complete dictionary of dry goods and history of silk, linen, wool and other fibrous substances (1892)
Cole, George S. [from old catalog] · Chicago, W. B. Conkey company] · leaf 392
tates offers perhaps as striking anillustration as any of the actual displacement of hand labor by machinery. Wea COLES DICTIONARY OF DRY GOODS. 38? With a hand-loom, a weaver used to weave from sixty to eighty picks perminute in weaving muslin of good quality, with twenty threads of warp toeach… … cording to the grade of goods. While the cost of labor is somewhat highernow than it was formerly, yet the expense of weaving has been reduced bythe greater productive power of the machinery. The weaving of print-cloth twenty-eight inches wide and seven yards to the pound, now costs lessthan one…
Dry-goods · Textile industry and fabrics · Show-windows
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from The Mason Machine Works, Taunton, Massachusetts, U.S.A., inventors and builders of cotton machinery : Founded 1842 ; Incorporated 1873 ; [Catalogue] (1898)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-masonmachinework00maso-341-102.webp)
