Drawing. Carding, drawing and roving [Swainson, Birley & Co cotton mill] / Thomas Allom, nd. [c1834]. pencil, pen, sepia and wash; 12x19cm. Original for a plate from Baines' History of cotton ...

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Ginning, blowing, carding, drawing, roving, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting, sewing, ironing, shipping and trucking — all the steps it took to turn some cotton bolls into your T-shirt. Those ...

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THIS latest addition to the Library of Useful Stories, written by the director of the Textile School at Bolton, gives a clearly expressed and popular account of the chief cultivated species of the ...