History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . ganizations have beendeveloped w^hose sole attention is directedto the purchasing and selling of mill usual method by which a cotton orwoolen mill disposes of its v\raste textileproducts is by contract for the entire month of January is usually given up to contracting and the dealers enter negotia-tions with the manufacturers for the purposeof purchasing their entire waste productionfor the ensuing year. Similarly, the dealersthemselves aim to dispose of as much oftheir purchase as is possi
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . ganizations have beendeveloped w^hose sole attention is directedto the purchasing and selling of mill usual method by which a cotton orwoolen mill disposes of its v\raste textileproducts is by contract for the entire month of January is usually given up to contracting and the dealers enter negotia-tions with the manufacturers for the purposeof purchasing their entire waste productionfor the ensuing year. Similarly, the dealersthemselves aim to dispose of as much oftheir purchase as is possible by contract, butvery often dealers take the chance of buyingup wastes for the whole year and taking achance on playing the market as regards theselling. In the cotton waste trade, rovingsand spinning waste are essentially as valu-able as the raw material. The custom hasarisen whereby dealers contract to buy thesegrades from the mills throughout the year ona percentage basis so that the purchase pricefluctuates at a given percentage of the cur-rent market price of spot Old Manchester Mill, Manchester, N. H. 88 CHAPTER NINETHE MARVELOUS PRODUCTS OF THE CARPET MILLS OF AMERICA Carpet making in the United States, as abusiness proposition of any importance datesback only to the time when the first carpetfactory was established in Philadelphia in1 760. Before that carpets were made, ofcourse, but the industry was of a desultorycharacter and of small importance commer-cially. In colonial times carpets were aluxury for the wealthy only; perhaps ourancestors were content to have clean sandon their floors occasionally and if they werelucky to have advanced in this w^orldsgoods, they might have had a hand-maderug carpet for the best room if therewas one. Perhaps our great-great-grand-mothers braided a rug from the cast-offclothes of the family to lay before the openfire-place which did duty for heating, light-ing and the simple ccokery of the da/.These were, indeed, the luxur
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