An early 20th-century postcard shows the sprawling Winooski Mill complex. Wiki Commons photo (“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.) [T]he profits being made by woolen mill ...
When John Wheelwright arrived in Exeter in the late winter of 1638, he was most likely wearing woolen socks. Europeans used two basic fiber sources for their clothing – linen and wool. Both of these ...
AT a meeting of the Newcomen Society held in Prince Henry's Room, Fleet Street, on Dec. 16, Mr. E. Kilburn Scott read a paper on early cloth fulling and its machinery. Though it has remained for ...