Excerpt from The Useful Arts and Manufactures of Great Britain: First Series, d104ile Fabrics, &C OF the four raw materials which supply clothing, flax is said to have belonged originally to Egypt; the sheep, which furnishes wool, to the mountain ranges of Asia; the sills-worm to China; and the cotton plant to India and America. 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.