Making Cloth


Inspecting and packing cloth at Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, ca. 1925

Inspecting and packing cloth at Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, ca. 1925
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Finally, the cloth is graded -- firsts, seconds, shorts or remnants -- then packaged for shipping or storage.

Some cloth was sent to the bleachery or dye house.

Anything else was shipped to markets in Boston and New York.

From there the products were sold on the domestic market or exported to markets all over the world.

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