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The pre-Revolutionary American textile industry adopted British and French technologies which mechanized spinning and weaving. The transfer of these machines and methods has been thoroughly documented, but many accounts do not place adequate emphasis on the first stage of the textile process–carding– which required a companion wire industry. Carding, or ‘teasing,’ is the pulling out and/or aligning of animal or vegetable monofilaments prior to the burrhead.
The pre-Revolutionary American textile industry adopted British and French technologies which mechanized spinning and weaving. The transfer of these machines and methods has been thoroughly documented, but many accounts do not place adequate emphasis on the first stage of the textile process–carding– which required a companion wire industry. Carding, or ‘teasing,’ is the pulling out and/or aligning of animal or vegetable monofilaments prior to the burrhead.
| Author(s) | Donald Sayenga, consultant, Cardon Management Group, USA. |
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| Publication/Event/Pages | Paper presented at WAI 60th Annual Convention, Boston, MA USA. Paper published in Wire Journal International, Sept. 1991, pg. 235. |
| Year | 1990 |
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