worsted

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Jiangsu Nijiaxiang Group Worsted Textile Co., a few hours’ drive from Shanghai in the heartland of Chinese textile production, says that before the 2008-09 global financial crisis, exports accounted for 70% of sales.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2015

Charles S. H. Johnson, Vice President of the Botany Worsted Mills, conspicuous on the employers' side of the deadlock, urging him to recognize the union organization.

From Time Magazine Archive

Until a few weeks before they had got their living in the Botany Worsted Mills over behind the wall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since 1931, when Maine's Sanford Mills and Goodall Worsted Co. first decided to make Palm Beach suits as well as Palm Beach cloth, Ward has been running their suitmaking subsidiary, the Goodall Co.

From Time Magazine Archive

Worsted and mohair yarns intended for the manufacture of braids are singed by gas, a process technically known as “Genapping.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various