STAMFORD – It’s not a post-turkey delusion. Close-up, wool looks something like a yard bird. “Each individual fiber looks like a chicken's leg, it's got little scales on it,” Marianne Marugg said.

Spinning, no. 6 from JR Barfoot's The Progress of Cotton (1840). In this period, Manchester was the centre of the cotton industry and referred to as 'Cottonopolis'. Before the introduction of labour ...

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