Howard Priestman — Principles of Woollen Spinning

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1924. second edition. Hardcover. Green cloth. 339 pp. Includes bw illustrations and foldout diagrams. A guide to the "shoddy trade", providing technical guidance and techniques for the industrial processing of wool, with a brief history of the trade and chapters on washing, carbonizing, shoddy, oils and soaps, opening, mixing, carding, card feeds and condensers, the mule, and woollen frame spinning. Good+ (exlibrary with expected marks. title page, pg 1, and at least one foldout are marked with a perforation stamp. wear to cover at caps and corners) .