Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . ith fibres otherthan cotton. The quantity of yarn and thread imported into the Philippinesis steadily increasing. In 1903, it amounted to $641,164, and in 1906 hadrisen to $1,092,563. Yarn and thread are classed together, so it is impossibleto particularize as to the quantity of each, but yarn undoubtedly prepon-derates. Over half of this comes from Great Britain, with Japan next;then Belg
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . ith fibres otherthan cotton. The quantity of yarn and thread imported into the Philippinesis steadily increasing. In 1903, it amounted to $641,164, and in 1906 hadrisen to $1,092,563. Yarn and thread are classed together, so it is impossibleto particularize as to the quantity of each, but yarn undoubtedly prepon-derates. Over half of this comes from Great Britain, with Japan next;then Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Spain, India and China, withsmaller quantities from other countries. The greater portion of the yarnis shipped in 400-pound bales, containing forty bundles of ten poundseach. The finer and fancy yarns are shipped in bales and boxes of varioussizes. The possibilities of the trade in cotton fabrics in the Philippines areimmense, the imports in 1906 amounting in value to $2,146,964. These con-sisted of closely-woven cloths, loosely-woven cloths, wearing apparel, car-pets, yarn and thread, quilting and piques, velveteens and corduroys, tullesand laces, knit fabrics, — t: o OF THE UNITED STATES 77 COMBING AND CARDING The hand-combing and carding of wool and cotton must of necessityhave been one of the primal domestic arts, since without it there couldhave been no weaving of cloth. The operation is, in fact, pictured uponthose earliest records of the industry and ingenuity of man—the Egyptiantablets. But though various minor improvements and modifications weremade from time to time in the operation of combing, it was not untilthe eighteenth century that any attempt was made to invent machinery forthis purpose. The hand-comber, under the old system, employed two combs (seePlate 4) ; one of these a pad comb being affixed to a post, at a heightconvenient for the comber, by means of an iron rod fastened into the raw wool having been
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