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Lakwete shows how indentured British, and later enslaved Africans, built and used foot-powered models to process the cotton they grew for export. After Eli Whitney patented his wire-toothed gin, southern mechanics transformed it into the saw gin, offering stiff competition to northern manufacturers.
Handbook of Textile and Apparel Costing covers a wider area of the costing aspects of industrial and academic requirements from spinning to the apparel sector. It is a one of its kind in the textile and fashion discipline that covers the cost calculation methods of every manufacturing step in entirety: spinning, weaving, processing, and apparel manufacturing. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
Excerpt from Cotton Carding In writing this book, which the author now submits for the benefit of his fellow overseers, and the assistance of those who have the ambition to become overseers, the author was actuated by the desire to have at hand a reference book containing as nearly as possible all the necessary information and data concerning the process of cotton carding, instead of having several books and papers which are almost always mislaid at the time they are needed. He feels confident that he has attained what he sought to accomplish, and as no one loses anything by extending a helping hand to others who may be less fortunate or who may need assistance, he places this book within re...
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