CONVERTING TIMBER INTO THREAD.
A new wood industry, the manufacture of a thread for crochet and sewing purposes, has recently been started at the Aby Cotton Mill, near the town of Norrkoping, in the middle of Sweden. The manufacture has arrived at such a state of perfection that it can produce, at a much lower price, thread of as fine a quality as " Clarke's," and has from this circumstance been called thread " a la Clarke." It is wound in balls by machinery, either by hand or steam, which, together with the labelling, takes 1 minute 12 seconds, and the balls are packed up in ca-dboard boxes, generally ten in a box. Plenty of orders from all parts of Sweden have already come in, but as the works are not yet in proper order there has hardly been time to effect them all. The production gives fair promise of success, and it is expected to be very important for home consumption.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5651, 27 December 1879, Page 7
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