Days at the Factories, Or the Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain Described, and Illustrated by Numerous Engravings of Machines and Processes: Series I. , London (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Days at the Factories, or the Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain Described, and Illustrated by Numerous Engravings of Machines and Processes: Series I., London

As an occupation closely connected with the manufacture Of dress may be mentioned that Of the dyer. This trade is not carried on in London on anything like the scale which the north of England exhibits, because all our woven fabrics are dyed before being consigned to the warehouseman in London, if not even before being woven. The chief dyers in the metropolis are those in Bermondsey who dye hats and leather, and those in various parts Of London who te-dye partially worn articles of dress.

As cleansing agents in connection with the person and the dress, we must not forget soap, and soda, and pearl-ash, and blacking. All these are manufactured on what may be deemed a large scale, the first and the last principally in London. Indeed the other two are also largely made here, but they may be more appropriately associated with the north of England, especially since the changes which modern che mistry has wrought in the modes of producing these alkalis.

A glance may next be taken at some of the manufacturing Opera tions by which our dwellings are built and stocked with useful fumi ture and implements. The raw materials, in this as in other cases.

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