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inches shall be included in the top. This comb- 

 ing completed, we have a collection of mohair fibers 

 none of them less than about five inches in length. 

 This top is now ready to spin. This combing is ren- 

 dered necessary by the fact that all of the mohair con- 

 tains an admixture of kemp, and kemp cannot be spun 

 with the finer grades of mohair. In getting this kemp 

 out of the mohair many of the short mohair fibers 

 are lost, so that combing is an expensive process. It 

 costs in time, labor and mohair. 



SPINNING. 



Many strands of this Lister top are now drawn 

 down into a single thread. This thread, if the fibers 

 comprising it are coarse, may have some projecting 

 ends, which give it a rough, uneven appearance, and if 

 so, these ends are burned off. The thread is passed 

 through a gas flame at a given rate of speed by ma- 

 chinery, and the projecting ends are singed. This is 

 called genapping. The yarn is now ready for manu- 

 facturing. In Bradford, England, there are mills 

 which only spin the yarn. Their trade is with the 

 manufacturers, both at home and abroad, and it is 

 a known fact that, while France and Germany manu- 

 facture much plush and braid, they buy all of their 

 yarn from Bradford. 



CARDING. 



Short mohair, that is, mohair less than six inches 

 long, is not run through combs, as above described. 



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