The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . lloons or any other drapery,stuffs or woolen manufactured whatsoever, made or mixedwith wool or wool flax, being the production or manufactureof any of the English plantations in America, shall be ladenon any ship or vessel. Nor could same wares be laid uponany horse or carriage to be transported to any place what-soever. FIRST WORSTED MILL The first worsted mill was established in 1695 by JohnCornish, a comber, dyer, weaver, and fuller of Boston. Hedyed with tw
The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . lloons or any other drapery,stuffs or woolen manufactured whatsoever, made or mixedwith wool or wool flax, being the production or manufactureof any of the English plantations in America, shall be ladenon any ship or vessel. Nor could same wares be laid uponany horse or carriage to be transported to any place what-soever. FIRST WORSTED MILL The first worsted mill was established in 1695 by JohnCornish, a comber, dyer, weaver, and fuller of Boston. Hedyed with two furnaces, used two combs, and wove withfour looms. His fulling mill was detached from the restof the plant. The spinning was done by farmers, who onmarket days called at the mill for the clean top wool fromwhich the noil had been removed and brought back thespun worsted. When Cornish died, serge was in the mak-ing on his looms. He left an estate of about twelve hun-dred dollars. German immigrants had in 1683 and 1689established the manufacture of hosiery in Germantown, Pa.,and also the manufacture of linen. fu/ J. j%;^*>». y^~ ^i/ka///e. THE LOOM THAT PRECKDED THE POWER LOOM {According to Richard Guest) Figure 1. The warp is wound upon the yarn beam A; the lesse iscarefully preserved by rods B; one-half of the threads pass through oneheald, and the other half through the other. The healds C are looped inthe middle, and the threads of the warp go through the loops. Fromthe healds the warp passes through the reed D, which is fixed in a mov-able frame called the lathe, E. A cross-piece, F, on the upper part of thelathe rests on each side of the loom, and the lathe swings on this cross-piece. The weaver sits on the seat G, and with his foot presses down oneof the treadles H, which raises one of the healds and each alternate threadof the warp. The weaver holds the picking peg in his right hand, and withit drives the shuttle from one side of the lathe to the other, between anda
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