Part 5 (1/2)
How is the Cotton separated froins_, of which there are two kinds; the _roller-gin_, and the _saw-gin_ In the forathered from the plant, is drawn between two rollers, placed so closely together as to pere of the cotton, but not of the seeds, which are consequently left behind In the _saw-gin_, the cotton is placed in a receiver, one side of which consists of a grating of parallel wires, about an eighth of an inch apart; circular saws, revolving on a cole in their teeth the cotton, and draw it froe to pass between the wires
How is itbeen separated from the seed, is spun by a machine for the purpose It is next woven, then dressed, and printed
What is Cloth?
The word, in its general sense, includes all kinds of stuffs woven in the loom, whether the threads be of wool, cotton, hemp, or flax
To what is it more particularly applied?
To a web or tissue of woollen threads
_Web_, any thing woven
What is Wool?
The covering or hair of sheep To prepare it for the weaver, it is first shorn, washed, and dried, then carded or combed by machinery into fibres or threads: formerly this was always performed by the hand, by means of an instrument, called a coh not e factories This co is repeated two or three ti
Spinning or converting wool, or cotton, silk, &c into thread, was anciently performed by the distaff and spindle: these we find es, and in all countries yet discovered The natives of India, and of some other parts of the world, still employ this simple invention
What was the next improvement?
The invention of the hand-wheel In 1767, a -jenny was invented by a weaver nareatest i was effected by Mr
Arkwright, in 1768: these two inventions were coain improved upon in 1776; so that by the new plan, the material can be converted into thread in a considerably shorter space of ti to man merely to feed the machine, and join the threads when they break The sheep, whose wool forinally fro to theis the sa any kind of thread into a flat web, or cloth, by interlacing one thread with another; the various appearances of the manufacture arise as much from the modes in which the threads are interwoven, as from the difference of material
Is not the ereat antiquity?
In the earliest records we possess of the arts ofa chief article in the ; it is spoken of in the Bible, as a common material for cloth, as early as the time of Moses The ancient Greeks and Roinning of the thirteenth century, the manufacture was established in many parts of Europe, particularly in Spain, from which country it extended itself to France and Italy
There is no doubt that it was introduced into England by its conquerors the Ro established at Winchester, sufficiently large to supply the Ros are made or manufactured; derived from the Latin _manus_, a hand, and the verb _facio_, to do or ress of this lish, being desirous of is, by the offer of various privileges, to establish manufactories there The skill of these people soon effected a great ier relish wool into Flanders, to be overnment to forbid it Both the cotton and woollen reat importance in the United States
What country affords the best Wool?