The Tailors Handbook – Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part two
This is the eighth, and final, article taken from “The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information” by W.D.F. Vincent published in c1905.
It is taken from the sixteenth part of the the handbook looking at the where the materials to make clothes come from – in this part, from animal products.
“…By far the largest quantity of our wool now comes from Australia and New Zealand, and in 1898 Australia alone exported 660,000,000 pounds, the value of which was nearly £30,000,000…”
“There are few tailors of mature years who have not had more or less experience of the depredations caused by the moth, and it is a difficult question to decide whether to look upon this little insect as the tailor’s friend or foe, for under different circumstances it may be both…”
➡ Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part two
All pages about WDF Vincent are listed below:
![WDF Vincent](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wdfvincentsq-150x150.jpg)
W.D.F. Vincent – Tailor and Journalist
![The Vincent Square](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-1479158432823-150x150.jpg)
Never mind the Quality… The Vincent Square
![Book Cover: Tailoring of the Belle Epoque](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/TailorBelleEpoque-116x150.jpg)
More about W.D.F. Vincent
![Cutting Academy Flyer](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-1479211267857-150x150.jpg)
The Noble Army of Tailors
![Frontspiece of the Tailor's Handbook](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-1479138959857-147x150.jpg)
The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information
![Cutting Academy Flyer](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-1479211267857-150x150.jpg)
The Advantages of Tailoring
![Private Lawler](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rajaofboojh-150x97.jpg)
The Ninth Part of a Man
![External Anatomy](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wp-1484605315895-150x150.jpg)
External Anatomy
![History of Costume from Tailors Handbook](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/PSX_20170212_201337-150x146.jpg)
History and Philosophy of Clothes
!["The Bedlam of Creation", illustration depicting Diogenes Teufelsdroch in Monmouth Street](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Sullivan_carlyle-111x150.jpg)
Origins of clothes and writings for tailors
![The Jute Plant](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wp-1492367348744.-118x150.jpg)
Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part one
![Sheep](https://vincents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/PSX_20170508_140151-150x150.jpg)