Tops, a new American industry; a study in the development of the American worsted manufacture. The Arlington Mills .. (1898)
Arlington Mills · Cambridge, Printed at the Riverside Press · leaf 38
pioneer man-ufacturers found it necessary to perform allthe processes connected with the making ofcloth. They must not only spin their. ownyarns, but they must dye and finish their owncloths, there being nobody in the neighborhoodwho could do any of these things for them.Every woolen mill was… … few years that the inertia of inherited habit specializa- J m TION OF THE has begun to give way, here and there, before J^fsxRYthe superior advantages of a subdivision of theindustry into its several specialties. Thismodern tendency to specialization is quite asmarked in the other great industries,…
Woolen and worsted manufacture
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