. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments. 68 THE HISTORY OF The cotton being thus prepared, without any carding,it is spun by the women; the coarse yarn is spun on aheavy one-thread wheel, of teak-wood, and of the rudestcarpentry—. The finer yarn is spun with a metallic spin
. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments. 68 THE HISTORY OF The cotton being thus prepared, without any carding,it is spun by the women; the coarse yarn is spun on aheavy one-thread wheel, of teak-wood, and of the rudestcarpentry—. The finer yarn is spun with a metallic spindle, some-times with and sometimes without a distaff; a bit of clayis attached as a weight to one end of the spindle, whichis turned round with the left hand, whilst the cotton issupplied with the right; the thread is wound up on asmall piece of wood. The spinster keeps her fingersdry by the use of a chalky powder. In this simple waythe Indian women, whose sense of touch is most acuteand delicate, produce yarns which are finer and farmore tenacious than any of the machine-spun yarns ofEurope. The yarn, having been reeled and warped in the sim- THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 69 plest possible manner, is given to the weaver, whoseloom is as rude a piece of apparatus as can be is thus described:— The loom consists merely of two bamboo rollers, one for the warp and the other for the web, and a pair of geer. The shuttle performs the double office of shuttle and batten, and for this purpose is made like a large netting needle, and of a lengt
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