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THE LANCASHIRE MILL. 383
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Virtuous T It He Asser Is A T By Ion Com...
" mule" No 40 was the highest number spun , or in other
words than 40 , , a hanks pound of of yar raw n , material measuring was 840 never yards wroug each ht ; and into when more ,
in 1792 no less than 278 hanks were for the first time spun from marvel a , pound and the of cotton was , the sold feat to the was musli looked n man upon ufacturers as quite of a yarn
time Glasgow however , at the rate the of twenty abilities guineas of the per machine pound have . Since been that so , , cap rival the
extendedthat its results may almost be said to " 460 spider hanks 's most , a attenuated length equivalent thread , " to it 240 being miles now of possible yarn to from spin a
sing Nor le pound is the , _prodiiction of fibre . of a finer thread the only improvement t
which has been effected , for when the machine was firsinvented drew out , the the sp thread inner had in order to walk to after send it the back u carriage again " to as the it
starting point as soon , as it had reached its goal , it being then that customary one was for one always man advancing to have two whil mules e he under was engaged his charge in , re so
was turning invented the other which to could its place be . affixed In 1832 without , however alteration , an apparatu to the s
mules then in useand which forced , the carriage back without , , thus dis
which pensing human had aid with while as the soon it con las as tinual te it d had rendered wal drawn k to the and out mule the fro , - thread the inner necessity , ' s toil too for - sp
lahorious a , task for the female , frame . All that is now required motion of those of who the attend carriage the machines guide it being at the mer end ely and to regulate watch and the
repair breakage of the , threads—this light , work is mostly performed The finished by women . wound bthe return of the machines up y
as each length yarn is spun , , when the mule is preparing the soft plian produced t weft , when is deposited the smooth on revolving wiry reels is being simultaneously spun by the
as 66 throstle" , and thence warped , " or warp wound off in a _welb of threads , arranged , parallel to each other upon a large roller of
throug department calico width h a troug . , and Here h of taken paste the aw width composed ay to of be threads s of tiffened sour is damaged in again the " wound dressing flour ( for off ' *
the common idea of the dress " employed being lime is quite a during the popular sup the erfluous delusion paste ) , over is , then to which which passed it is succeed over also exposed a a brush series which to of the hot removes draug pipes ht ,
of a revolving passage fan to assist the drying . One machine accomp wis lishes e threads all these of the processes calicoare , to subj which ected only the woof , or
length-The threads thus stiffened , are now removed . to another room ,
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The Lancashire Mill. 383
THE LANCASHIRE MILL . 383
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/23/
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