Excerpt from Tops: A Study in the Development of the American Worsted Manufacture, the Arlington Mills
Ost people have not the slightest idea preface f What a top is, and some explanation to the uninitiated is a necessary pre face to a book which is all about worsted tops. The word itself is a good old anglo-saxon word, signifying a tuft or ball at the point or top Of anything, and so specifically, in the worsted manufacture, a bunch or bundle of long-stapled combed wool, or sliver, ’l’ ready for the spinner. The definition given by mclaren is a ball of combed wool from which the noil has been sepa rated. It is claimed that the child’s toy, a top, although deriving its name from the German.
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