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Excerpt from Spinning Woollen and Worsted: Being a Practical Treatise for the Use of All Persons, Engaged in These Trades The design of this Manual is to describe in a concise form the principles of worsted and woollen spinning, as exemplified in the machinery employed in the various processes of those trades. There are many spinners, both masters and workmen, who know their business without having paid much attention to the reasons why the different processes are employed to produce required results; and there are probably still more who do their work by rule of thumb, and never take the trouble to make the exact calculations which are really required. No better example of this can be found than the way in which wool is generally washed, without any regard to what is best for it, but merely with a view to cheapness and obtaining a good colour. That this arises from ignorance of the structure and nature of wool is most probable, and therefore a considerable amount of space has been devoted to this branch of the subject. To those who desire to know the reasons for what they are doing, and to have in a convenient form the rules for all the calculations they require; it is hoped this book may be useful; while to those who are not actually spinners, but who desire to have an insight into the trade, it may prove clear and instructive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.