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textile and clothing industry.
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and linseys, twills, black and fancy cloth for ladies’ dresses. Wallbergs
fabriksaktiebolag,1 Slottsmöllan in Halmstad, occupies a conspicuous place.
There is manufactured woven felt (for paper- and wood-pulp machines,
filtering, etc.) as well as pressed (felt squares, pipes, felt for isolating
purposes). Even pattern-weavings with Jacquard wool are produced at
several factories, particularly damask for furniture and carpets, both the
simpler kinds (floor-cloths) and so-called Axminster. The Stockinet
manufacture, i. e. machine-made woven stuffs, is of great importance. This
manufacture, the value production of which has increased by six times
during the last twenty years, uses both pure wool and wool mixed with
cotton (vigogne thread) and also old carded stuffs.
Drag Cloth-Factory, Norrköping.
Of the wool consumed by wool factories, amounting to about 6 or 7 million
kilograms per annum, about 45 % is imported, 10 or 15 % consists of native
wool, and the remaining 40 or 45 % of artificial wool (carded worsted, shoddy,
mungo, extract, or such like). Among the imported wools may be noticed also
the so-called »noils», or the waste-wool left in the process of wool-combing, which
is mixed with other wool. The import of worsteds amounts to nearly half of
1 Aktiebolag = joint-stock company.
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