American Woolen Company · Boston, Mass., American woolen co · leaf 21
of gilling, and wound into alarge ball, which is called a finished top. The dyeing is done in three ways —in the top, in the thread or skein afterbeing spun, or in the piece after it iswoven. If the wool is to be stock dyed—that is, dyed in the top—it is sent to thedyehouse to be dyed the shade… … FROM WOOL TO CLOTH a thread. The top, the soft untwistedend, is now run through the drawingmachine, the process sometimes consistingof nine distinct operations, and is drawnand redrawn until reduced to the sizerequired for its special purpose; and thestock is then delivered to the spinningroom on…
Woolen and worsted manufacture
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