Fibre & Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade, Volume 231896 - Textile fabrics |
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Address alizarine American assignor Bard of Have-on Bobbin Boss Weaver Boston building capital stock card room Carder care Fibre cassimeres cent cheviots cloth colors Conn cotton mill COTTON-Overseer cylinder dress dyeing England erect experience factory Fall River fancy feet Fibre and Fabric filed fixer flannels frames friends George GEORGE DRAPER give Hopedale hosiery Hosiery and Knit improved industry Jobbers John kinds knitting mill labor loom fixer Lowell machine machinery manufacturers married Mass mules Oleine operation Overseer of weaving patents Philadelphia pieces plant pounds Prefers N.E. roller second hand serial shoddy shut silk SOAP South spindles Spinner spinning frame spinning wants spooling Street superintendent tariff Textile thread Tim Bobbin tion trade U.S. Patent Office Wade wants position warp weave room weaving wants wool woolen mills worsted yards yarn
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