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:
W.D.F. Vincent – Tailor and Journalist
Never mind the Quality… The Vincent Square
More about W.D.F. Vincent
The Noble Army of Tailors
The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information
The Advantages of Tailoring
The Ninth Part of a Man
External Anatomy
History and Philosophy of Clothes
Origins of clothes and writings for tailors
Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part one
Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part two
