Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · London : Macmillan & Co. · leaf 88
once. Youknow that this work used to be done on aspinning wheel. That spun but one threadat a time. The yarn is now woven into cloth. This isdone by the looms, A set of threads called thewarp threads is arranged in parallel lines, andanother set of threads is rapidly woven in andout in the opposite… … Fig. 19. —Spinning Wool by Hand. You know tkat there is a sort of fuzz on cloth.I saw how that is made. A great number ofburrs, or teasels of the teasel plant, are fastenedto rollers through which the cloth is run. Theteasels are rough and pull out tiny threads.This work is called teasing. We found…
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