"A tour through the Woolwork Department" "Our hope that poor students could earn here, outside of class hours, what they needed toward their school expenses, has for the past five years, been fully realized." "Process #1: The heaviest dirt is removed ...
"A tour through the Woolwork Department" "Process #2: The wool is then carefully sorted." A group of men sit on low chairs outside and sort through several piles of wool.
"After which it is put in shallow wire baskets (to avoid matting thru handling) and washed in cold water (Process #3)." A group of men and women in the process of sorting and washing raw wool.
"Process #8: It is then dyed with steam, supplied from a locally-made boiler." A group of women wearing long aprons stand around a boiler holding long sticks.
"Process #7: These skeins are carefully washed, again in cold water (there is little or no oil in our shansi wool)." Women standing outside in warm clothing. Three of them hold long skeins of yarn over baskets presumably filled with cold water for was...
"An exhibit of various colors the wool on these color-cards has been carded but not spun." A line of women holding cards that have skeins of dyed yarn mounted on them.
