The textile fibres of commerce. A handbook on the occurrence, distribution, preparation, and uses of the animal, vegetable, and mineral fibres used in cotton, woollen, paper, silk, by Hannan William I

Author:Hannan, William I
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Textile fabrics
Publisher: London : C. Griffin
Published: 1902-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Raw Cottons.—Fig. 71 is from a photograph of the layers of cotton from an American cotton bale. The bulky appearance is a characteristic feature of American cotton, and is a sign that it has been cleaned by the Saw Gin process, by which curliness is avoided. The longer stapled cottons are remarkable for the curly appearance in samples. Nearly all the long-stapled, and most of the East Indian cottons, are peculiar in their raw state for this curliness. It is regarded as a sign that such cottons have been ginned by the Macarthy or by one of the roller gin type of cleaners.

Fig. 72 represents two samples of cotton. In the one that has been opened the fibres have been freed from many of the impurities by the

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