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Excerpt from The Farmer's Library, Vol. 2: Animal Economy
It is, then, on these serrations, combined with its spirally curling form, every fibre being twisted into numerous cork-screw-like gyrations, its soft ness, and its elasticity (or disposition to submit to some elongation, or under other circumstances to contract), that wool owes its powers of felting that is, of forming an unwoven, but compact, strong, and perfect tissue - a tissue, if we may so term it, known in the earliest ages, and of which, as we have previously stated, we have seen an Egyptian, or perhaps grecco-egyptian, specimen, covering a mummy obtained at Thebes. The process of felting is simple: a felted substance is the ground work of beaver hats, and the mode in which this is produced may be seen at any hat manufactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
