. 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. THE STORY OF TEXTILES 101 roved, spun and woven; the cloth was scoured, fulled,tented, raised, sheared, dyed and dressed. The tailor wasat hand and made up the finished cloth into garments, andat a quarter past six in the evening Sir John Throckmortonsat down to dinner at the head of his guests in a completedamson-colored suit that had thus been made,—winningthe wager with an hour and three-quarters to spare. ELI WHITNEY The improvements in spinning and weaving
. 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. THE STORY OF TEXTILES 101 roved, spun and woven; the cloth was scoured, fulled,tented, raised, sheared, dyed and dressed. The tailor wasat hand and made up the finished cloth into garments, andat a quarter past six in the evening Sir John Throckmortonsat down to dinner at the head of his guests in a completedamson-colored suit that had thus been made,—winningthe wager with an hour and three-quarters to spare. ELI WHITNEY The improvements in spinning and weaving machinerysoon brought cotton manufacturing to a pass where itsdemand for raw material outran the supply, and ways andmeans for increasing the raw cotton available became apressing necessity. As the industry about Manchester had grown, new fieldsfor the production of cotton were developed. The originalsource of supply was India, other parts of the East, andEgypt. It was indigenous, however, to the West Indies,and soon these islands became a source of supply. About1770 West India cotton was transplanted to Georgia andlater to N
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