Gibbs, Charlotte Mitchell, 1885- [from old catalog], Illinois. University. Dept. of household science. [from old catalog] · Urbana, The University of Illinois · leaf 12
pensivenovelty materials as well as in cheap all-wool cloth. Because of theshortness of the fibers it may be detected readily when used alone, butin combination with good wool detection is more difficult. One class of shoddy consists of very short fibers, clippings fromthe mills, which are worked… … Figure 4 Figure 4 shows a piece of shoddy cloth, sold for all-wool at fiftycents a yard. This cloth would be warm, but does not look as well asmore expensive cloth, and will not wear as long as new wool. Thereis some cotton mixed with the wool before spinning, therefore it isdifficult to detect.…
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