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Sorting rags, c.1920

Voorn, H. (auteur/author)
Vlaanderen, André (illustrator)
year: 1985

type: illustratie
illustration
detail: nee
related terms: papiermaken papierstof lompen
period: 20e eeuw
classification:
B: Schriftdragers, inkt

contents: Sorting and cutting rags in a rag shed. Usually this work was done by women and girls. To the right the rags are still in bales, the way they were delivered at the mill. They were sorted above a sieve bin, where the women stripped them of buttons, hooks and eyes, zippers, etc. To cut them. the rags were hauled along an upstanding knife.

origineel:
©description: Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
©reproduction: VNP (Vereniging van Nederlandse Papier- en Kartonfabrieken), Hoofddorp




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