Textile calculations: being a guide to calculations relating to the construction of all kinds of yarns and fabrics (1896)
Posselt, Emanuel Anthony, 1858- · Philadelphia, E. A. Posselt · leaf 105
nd even in colored fibres of more cultivated sheep. Shoddy are wool fibres re-manufactured out of soft woolen rags which have yet feltingproperties. Shoddy consists of long fibres of various diameter ; fibres are now and then foundspoiled by scales being gone or the ends broken. If examining the… … Fig. 60. Fig. 61. Fig. 62. accompanying illustrations Fig. 60, shows Cheviot shoddy, Fig. 61, Thibet shoddy as visibleunder the microscope when magnified. Mungo is the name for wool fibres re-manufacture out of hard woolen rags, i. e., a cheapergrade of shoddy, made out of rags from fulled cloth.…
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