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Wool

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  • An itinerant salesman selling small woollen toys from a wicker baket. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Machinery: card wire maker. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. Farey.
  • Textiles: a spring pen-holder and parallel rule (above), a rack for stretching woollen fabric (below). Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.
  • Textiles: three stages in the production of woollen cloth, cutting the nap (top), washing [or sizeing ?] (centre), and pressing (bottom). Engraving, 1750.
  • Textiles: a spinning jenny. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.
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    Instruction sur les diverses maladies des bêtes a laine : avec les remèdes curatifs les plus salutaires / Par le comte Henry de Chastenay.

    Chastenay, Henry de, comte. | Date: 1817
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    Selections from essays on health-culture and the sanitary woollen system / by Gustav Jaeger.

    Jäger, Gustav, 1832-1917. | Date: 1886
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    Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

    | Date: 1802-1924 | Reference: MS.7400
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    Examen du sentiment de M. Roland de la Platiere, sur les troupeaux, sur les laines, & sur les manufactures.

    Carlier, Claude, 1725-1787. | Date: 1787
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    Specification of Theophilus Westhorp : lint.

    Westhorp, Theophilus. | Date: 1862
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