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    Worsted (/ˈwɜːrstɪd/ or /ˈwʊstɪd/) is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from...
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    The Bernat Mill, also known as Capron Mill, and later Bachman Uxbridge Worsted Company, was an American yarn mill in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, that was...
    11 KB (1,231 words) - 14:28, 20 March 2024
  • Abbot Worsted Company was at one time the largest producer of carpet yarns in the world. Abbot Worsted had an early twentieth century U.S. soccer team...
    3 KB (326 words) - 19:08, 15 May 2023
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    Short draw (redirect from Worsted-spun)
    Short draw is the spinning technique used to create worsted yarns. It is spun from combed roving, sliver or wool top – anything with the fibers all lined...
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    Albany Woollen Mills, also known as the Western Australian Worsted and Woollen Mills Ltd., was a woollen mill located in Albany, Western Australia. The...
    9 KB (1,013 words) - 18:51, 31 July 2023
  • similar animal fibres, cashmere, camel, etc.) be cleaned before mechanical processing. Woolen and worsted nomenclatures apply only to the textile processing...
    4 KB (574 words) - 12:03, 5 June 2023
  • (SNCOs) were authorized two silk epaulets, sergeants two worsted and corporals one worsted on the right shoulder. The color was white (infantry), yellow...
    54 KB (5,469 words) - 18:44, 16 May 2024
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    in 1921, died in 1923 and the company went bankrupt in 1926. Cranston Worsted Mills and then Collins & Aikman and finally American Tourister and Piling...
    3 KB (247 words) - 01:40, 8 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for French Worsted Company Mill Historic District
    The French Worsted Company Mill Historic District encompassed a historic mill complex in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Bounded by Hamlet Avenue, Davison Avenue...
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    Dolphinholme Worsted Mill is a textile mill located in the village of Dolphinholme, Lancashire. The Worsted Spinning Mill was built in 1795 by Thomas Hinde...
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    ridges on both inner and outer surfaces via a two-up, two-down weave. The worsted variety is used in making military uniforms, suits, greatcoats, and trench...
    5 KB (539 words) - 07:58, 25 August 2023
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    Gabardine is a durable twill worsted wool, a tightly woven fabric originally waterproof and used to make suits, overcoats, trousers, uniforms, windbreakers...
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  • Thumbnail for National and Providence Worsted Mills
    The Rising Sun Mill, formerly the National and Providence Worsted Mills, are a historic textile mill complex located at 166 Valley Street in Providence...
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    Worstead railway station is on the Bittern Line in Norfolk, England, serving the villages of Worstead and Sloley. It is 13 miles 12 chains (21.2 km) down...
    3 KB (165 words) - 19:38, 15 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lafayette Worsted Company Administrative Headquarters Historic District
    The Lafayette Worsted Company Administrative Headquarters Historic District encompasses the two surviving buildings of a once-extensive textile mill complex...
    2 KB (151 words) - 01:46, 30 March 2021
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    The Wood Worsted Mill is located at South Union St. and Merrimack Street, on the south bank of the Merrimack River, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The mill...
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    two systems, either woollen or worsted. Worsted yarn is more favourable for tufting when the finished product will be used in high-traffic areas, as it...
    15 KB (2,024 words) - 13:16, 18 April 2024
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    yarn is required for various articles, so that 12 is equivalent to 8 ply (worsted weight, medium weight) yarn. A more hands-on method, there is the test...
    8 KB (869 words) - 20:23, 15 May 2024
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    silk grenadine overlaid with wider crêpe stripes. An earlier 1830s cotton/worsted fabric, spelled balzarine, was probably not crêpe. Bark (or tree-bark)...
    19 KB (1,850 words) - 19:24, 16 March 2024
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    cotton and wool or of wool alone. Quality bombazine has a silk warp and a worsted weft. It is twilled or corded and used for dress-material, and was commonly...
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