The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . Figs. 152, 153, 154. THE WOOL SCRIBBLER AND DIAGRAMS. as many as twelve small toothed cylinders. The Wool goes intothis machine and is torn in ten thousand ways. Two or three ofthese engines transform the Wool into a round sliver, that canbe handled on the spinning jenny* 304 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. Is there much to be done after Woolen Cloth leaves the Loom ? The greater part of the labor remains. As it leaves the loomthe cloth is called u roughers. It is full of oil and size, a
The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . Figs. 152, 153, 154. THE WOOL SCRIBBLER AND DIAGRAMS. as many as twelve small toothed cylinders. The Wool goes intothis machine and is torn in ten thousand ways. Two or three ofthese engines transform the Wool into a round sliver, that canbe handled on the spinning jenny* 304 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. Is there much to be done after Woolen Cloth leaves the Loom ? The greater part of the labor remains. As it leaves the loomthe cloth is called u roughers. It is full of oil and size, and itmust be fulled or milled. Soaking with hot soap-suds,. Fig. 156. WOOLEN CLOTH OPEN WIDTH SCOURING MACHINE. the cloth goes through rollers until it shrinks and felts, some-times to half its original length and breadth. It is now washed,dried and stretched, and is ready to take the nap. What are Broadcloth, Doeskins and Meltons ? They are highly milled Woolen Cloths with a nap, and thisnap is produced in a way that will interest the student ofpractical affairs An herb called the teasel bears little hooks onits seed-pod. The manufacturer binds these teasels on a largedrum, thus making a card with tiny, weak little hooks. Thisdrum he revolves over the soft Woolen Cloth. The hookscatch the Woolen fibre and draw it out so it will hide the warpand woof. The hook is nearly always weaker than the cloth is then pressed, and offers a less shining surface thansatin. All substitutes for teasels are given the same name bythe weavers. Teasels have been grown by speculators, and thecrop is separated into kings, middlings and scrubs. This Clothh
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