Dana, William B. [from old catalog] · New York, W. B. Dana & co. · leaf 49
ovinces are employed inthis single manufacture. And yet, as we stated,although every one was a producer, and their cloths wereunrivalled, their machines were only of the rudest descrip-tion. The following cut is given by Bain in his Historyof Cotton Manufactures. It represents a heavy one-thread… … With such uncouth and cumbersome instruments it iscertainly remarkable that results so wonderful wereobtained. But it is claimed that this superior excellencewas very largely due to the delicacy of touch possessed bothby the men and women. Mill in his history of British Indiasays that the weak and…
Cotton growing · Cotton manufacture
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