Excerpt from Cotton Manufacture: A Manual of Practical Instruction in the Processes of Opening, Carding, Combing, Drawing, Doubling, and Spinning of Cotton, and the Methods of Dyeing and Preparing Goods for the Market In preparing those articles, I was able to utilise the experience of over fifty years' active occupation in the Manufacture of Cotton, in the course of which the positions I have filled have ranged from that of an Operative in various branches to the responsible one of Manager in mills, both at home and abroad. And it should be a further qualification for undertaking such a task, that for some time I held the important position of Technical Instructor of Managers and Overlookers. Throughout the work, I have endeavoured to treat the subject from a thoroughly practical point of View, and to deal clearly but tersely with the various processes in their order of precedence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.