The textile industries : a practical guide to fibres, yarns & fabrics in every branch of textile manufacture, including preparation of fibres, spinning, doubling, designing, weaving, bleaching, printing, dyeing and finishing (1910)
Murphy, William S · London : The Gresham Publishing Company · leaf 38
E PREPARATION OF FLAX AND HEMP 17 mixed of various qualities in various proportions. Some kinds offlax lie in the stores for months, and other kinds are not stored anytime. The Treatment of Hemp.—The fibres we call hemp are derived,as we have seen, from various plants grown in regions far… … Fig. 57.—Hemp-softening Machine Other hemps partake sufficiently of the flax character to render similartreatment in manufacture almost inevitable. Hemp is the raw materialof twines and ropes; some portion of the fibre is employed in themaking of coarse cloths, but the quantity is very small. In…
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