Fales, Jane. [from old catalog] · New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's sons · leaf 109
he coarse ones inside. The bigcircle and the two small circles revolve, and as they revolvethere is always a point of contact between each small circle Textile Manufacture 91 and the big one. At this point of contact the strand offibre is fed in and pressed down, or dabbed, into the teethof the big… … From a photograph, copyright by American Woolen Co., Boston Noble comb The short fibres, called noils, are removed by a knife.These are frequently, though wrongly, included in the listof wool substitutes. Noils are used in the manufacture ofwoolen fabrics, as they give many short ends which are…
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