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The wool combing machine was invented by Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom, in Doncaster. The machine was used to arrange and lay parallel...

prepare wool and other fibres for woolen spinning are used to scrape, tear, and flay the victim's flesh. The tradition that a torturous death by combing with...

Combing is a method for preparing carded fibre for spinning. Combing aligns fibers in parallel before spinning to produce a smoother, stronger, and more...

processing was tiny: in 1701 only 1,985,868 pounds (900,775 kg) of cotton-wool was imported into England, and by 1730 this had fallen to 1,545,472 pounds...

popular method is combing. The process takes up to two weeks, but with a trained eye for when the fiber is releasing, it is possible to comb the fibers out...

manufacturer, who is known both for his work in developing the Square Motion wool-combing machine and as a Radical Liberal Member of Parliament. Holden was born...

shearing Wool bale Canvas work Carding Combing Dyeing Fulling Knitting Spinning Textile manufacturing Weaving Felt Fiber art Tweed Worsted Yarn Wool crepe...

and Romney Marsh. Pasture wool was not carded; instead it was washed, gilled and combed (using heated long-tooth metal combs), oiled and finally spun....

martyrdom, steel combs. The similarity of these instruments of torture to wool combs led to his adoption as the patron saint of wool combers in particular...

modern astronomy.  Other parts on permanent display are Eisinga’s former wool combing establishments and a collection of historical astronomical instruments...

thistle or teasel, as dried vegetable teasels were first used to comb the raw wool before technological advances led to the use of machines. These ordered...

Massachusetts, was named after Needham Market. It initially grew around the wool combing industry, until the onset of the Bubonic plague, which swept the town...

Iron comb may refer to: An iron comb used for combing wool A similar or identical instrument used for combing, a form of torture A hot comb used for straightening...

Cartwright was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Cartwright patented a wool combing machine in 1789 and a cordelier (machine for making rope) in 1792. He...

bred for the long fibers of its coat, known as Angora wool. They are gathered by shearing, combing or plucking. Because rabbits do not possess the same...

hardship leading to the introduction of machine-combing. This Industrial Revolution led to rapid growth, with wool imported in vast quantities for the manufacture...

meaning "make husbands fat and happy". In Spain it is known as "Rooster comb" because of its appearance.[citation needed] As a grain, Celosia is a pseudo-cereal...

undercoat is collected by combing the goat, not by shearing, as in other fine wools. A traditional producer of pashmina wool in the Ladakh region of the...

materials[citation needed] but most of the villagers were engaged in hand looming and wool combing in their own homes.[citation needed] In the mid-1860s, industry started...

Cartwright patents his first practical power loom in England and designs a wool combing machine. William Wouldhave demonstrates a self-righting rescue lifeboat...