spinneries

Many mills or worsted spinneries send their wools, either sorted or unsorted as they may desire, to a combing mill, where the wool is put into top at a lower price than that at which most spinneries can do their own combing.

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Then, of course, there are small spinneries, such as Pirtin kehräämö and Ylistaron kehräämö that buy wool from the local sheep farmers and spin their own wool yarns.

Fleegle's Blog 2008

Autumn House farms, 4 skeins of this blue from Walnut Bottom Farm, and 5 skeins of the red from technically, the mulespun from bartlett is not a farm wool, but i would consider small spinneries very close in feeling to farm wool. small spinneries like bartlett and green mountain usually work directly with farmers to buy the fleeces that go into their yarns, giving them control over who they buy from and giving the farmers more money for their fleece. also similar to farm yarn, the yarns produced by small spinneries are low process and better for the environment and for us! either way, you're getting right up and personal with the people who keep the sheep or the people who do the dyeing and spinning, and sometimes all three.

cosymakes 2008

"Night work was prohibited to persons under eight even in cotton, wool, worsted, hemp, flax, tow, and linen spinneries and weaving mills; children from nine to thirteen were not allowed to work more than forty - eight hours a week, and young persons thirteen to eighteen were restricted to sixty-eight hours a week.

Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century Joy, James Richard, 1863- 1902