A Twist of The Fingers
How a twist of the fingers determined the quality of cotton cloth was mentioned by Mr Edward Williamson, managing director of the Cotton Textiles Corporation of Zealand, during discussions in Christchurch. Mr Williamson said that in the weaving process, a mill hand had to give the thread a right-hand twist between thumb and finger. This was easy enough in Britain, but in the huge Indian factories, it had proved very difficult to teach native labour to twist right-handedly, and not to the left. Because many natives gave the thread a left-hand twist, most oi the Indian cloth suffered in quality. A local importer said he had oiten noticed that while one bolt of Indian cetton was of good quality, the next was poor. Mr Williamson, he said, had provided the explanation to something that had always puzzled him.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 73, Issue 6282, 16 September 1946, Page 5
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143A Twist of The Fingers Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 73, Issue 6282, 16 September 1946, Page 5
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