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History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments (1835)

Baines, Edward, Sir, 1800-1890 · London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson · leaf 139

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not keep pace either withthe weavers shuttle, or with the demand of themerchant. The one-thread wheel, though much improved fromthe rude teak-wood wheel used in India, (see p. 68,)was an extremely slow mode of spinning; as may besupposed from the subjoined representation of a spinsterat her work :—… … The yarn was spun by two processes, called rovingand spinning. In the first, the spinner took the shortfleecy rolls in which the cotton was stripped off thehand-cards, applied them successively to the spindle,and, wliilst with one hand she turned the wheel, andthus made the spindle revolve, with…

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