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vii. manufacturing industries.
a worsted spinning-mill. There are also a number of spinning-mills in the
rural districts, mainly for the treatment of native wool.
The number of spindles in the Swedish woollen industry amounted in
1912 to about 240 000 and the number of looms to 5 000. Among the
most remarkable features of this industry in later times may be
mentioned the growing employment of ring-spindle looms in the carding-wool
industry, although mostly for the coarser yarns; further, the so-called
dyeing of felling — previously introduced into the cotton industry, and,
finally, the general introduction into the mills, of the two-loom system
and quick-working looms, this making possible an essential increase in the
output.
Drag Clotli-Mills, Norrköping.
While the larger factories have developed more and more, even if
partly at the expense of the smaller ones, the value of the output has,
during the last thirty or forty years, increased many times over. The
manufacture of fine cloth for wearing apparel seems to be gradually
decreasing, while the contrary is the case with regard to the coarser kinds.
The Drag Company’s manufactures of cloth for uniforms, suits, and over-
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