ABSTRACT
WRITTEN accounts of mechanical operations are apt to be both dull and misleading, save when they are of great length and fully supplied with diagrams. To avoid if possible both dangers, no attempt will be made in the present chapter to describe in full technical detail any, much less all, the long series of processes which go to make up the woollen and worsted industries. The object of the chapter is not to instruct the manufacturer or the technical student, but to indicate as clearly as may be the broad principles and results of the leading processes and their relations to one another, in order that the commercial and economic aspects of the businesses in which they are carried on may be the better understood.
