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vii. manufacturing industries.
Kinna by Sven Erikson, one of the great names in the history of the
Swedish textile industry. Erikson began with a so-called
"money-advance-business" (Sw. förläggareaffär) for the manufacture of woven articles in
his native district, the hundred of Mark in A7ästergötland; then he
gradually extended the scope of his operations by the erection of a
spinning-mill, whereby the weaving-mill became independent of foreign yarn, and
the factory became the largest of its kind in the country. At the present
day the Swedish cotton industry employs 500 000 spindles and 13 000
looms.
Sven Erikson.
After a portrait by Geskel Saloman.
As an important modern factor in this industry may be mentioned the
increasing use that is made of the so-called automatic looms, i. e., those
looms possessing a device for the automatic introduction of the weft
into the spindle. Of these there are now some 3 000 in use, chiefly
Northrop looms. The Rydboholm Weaving Mills, Ltd., at
Viska-fors, for example, have all their looms provided with the device in
question. They are employed chiefly for smooth, plain cloths, as
experience has shown that they do not always give a perfectly faultless
product. The ring-spindle machines, too, have been generally introduced, in
place of the so-called "self-acting" or mule spinning machines. The larger
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