ABSTRACT
The textile industries are a homogeneous group with no very strong characteristics from a planning point of view. The quantity of raw material used is hardly ever large enough for transport to seriously effect location and the most important factor in most industries in this group is the availability of labour-particularly female labour. Cotton spinning and weaving are largely concentrated in Lancashire, with a smaller and diminishing centre around Glasgow. The processes of spinning and weaving wool are similar in essentials to those of cotton. The loose wool is sorted and scoured or washed with soap solution in a series of long tanks. Rayon is a fibre made from cellulose in the form of wood pulp or cotton linters. Viscose rayon is made from cardboard-like sheets of wood pulp which are stacked in large tanked frames and flooded with caustic soda.
