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Title: 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;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917 Foster, E. Everton Norris, Edith Mary, b. 1858
Subjects: Textile industry -- United States Industrialists
Publisher: Boston, Mass., James H. Lamb company
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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prepared by Schencks method made a coarser yarn than thatfrom Watts, and lOO tons of straw by Schencks process yielded 5.90 tons offibre; 100 tons of straw by Watts process yielded 12.20. By Pownallsinvention, the flax, after steeping, is passed between heavy rollers, after it istaken from the vats, clean water being kept flowing over the stems duringthe operation, to remove the gummy matters. The flax, when retted and dried, is next passed through a machinehaving numerous fluted rollers, some of which have a reciprocating motion;this thoroughly breaks the brittle wood parts of the stems, and preparesit for the operation of scutching, which is now mainly done by scutchingmachines. Brushing machines are sometimes used to finally clean the flaxbefore baling it for the market. From the earliest period of recorded history up to the eighteenthcentury, the manufacturing of linen was one of the most extensive domesticindustries of European countries; it was most largely developed in Russia,
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,„ M.S •^ in «5 Eg 23 X OF THE UNITED STATES 187 Austria, Germany, Holland and Belgium, the northern provinces of Franceand certain parts of England, in the northern parts of Ireland, and throughoutScotland, the importance of the industry is shown by the special laws madein those countries to protect and foster it. Some notable specimens offigured-stuflfs such as damasks, made of linen, or of silk and linen, in Spainand Italy as early as the fourteenth century, are seen in several industrialart museums in England and in Europe. The ground of the celebratedBayeux tapestry, which was made in the eleventh century, is of linen.Flanders was celebrated as early as the eleventh century for the weaving oftable linen, and many Flemish weavers from that time on, settled in England,where the linen manufacture was fostered by bounties. The first mill for spinning linen yarn by machinery was built in Darling-ton, England, in 1787, the machines being the inventions of John Kendrewand Thomas Po

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