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textile and clothing industry.
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network textures, white as well as coloured, which have already secured
a firm footing on the market and are, as far as quality is concerned,
fully worthy of comparison with the best obtained from abroad. These
goods are, moreover, exported.
What is noticeable within this sphere is the great extension of domestic
handicraft (hemslöjd) in certain districts, almost amounting to a home industry.
Such is the case more especially in the Län of Elfsborg, viz. in the neighbourhood
of Borås and Ulricehamn and in the hundreds of Mark, Kind, and ÅsT where the
country-people, owing to the bad condition of the soil, has turned from agriculture
to weaving. Here, the former extensive cultivation of flax and the linen industry
have completely yielded to cotton-weaving. The rich peasants are the suppliers,
i. e. they supply the yarn on credit to their dependents, who carry on weaving
in their homes and afterwards sell to the suppliers. Both Jacquard and other
tapestries, as more particularly linen and twill, undyed and dyed stuffs, are the
object of this home industry, to which about a quarter of all our manufacture
of cotton stuffs must be attributed. The goods are strong, good, and cheap, but
they are often wanting in finish. A certain distribution of labour with respect
to different sorts of weaving is introduced, so that in some parts of the country
only dress materials are woven, in others domestic and other white linens, in
others again huckaback, carpets, curtain stuffs, etc., also from other raw material
than cotton. As the suppliers, in order to be in a position to compete with the large
factories, are obliged to pay verv low prices to the weavers, the financial position
of the latter is bad; and although several members of a poor family can by this
system of work manage to exist, it has, however, its very dark sides.
Viskafors Cotton Spinning and Weaving-Mills.
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