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 88
g with a heavy wooden mallet, and its vibrationsopen the knots of the cotton, shake from it the dust anddirt, and raise it to a downy fleece. The hand-mill andthe bow have been used immemorially throughout all thecountries of Asia, and have their appropriate names inthe Arabic and other languages:… … 68 THE HISTORY OF The cotton being thus prepared, without any carding,it is spun by the women; the coarse yarn is spun on aheavy one-thread wheel, of teak-wood, and of the rudestcarpentry—
Cotton manufacture
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