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Para convertirla en tejido había que lavarla, peinarla, cardarla, separarla, torcerla, aprestarla y abatanarla, entre muchos otros procesos.
To turn it into cloth required washing, combing, carding, teaseling, warping, sizing and fulling, among many other processes.
Pero antes de que el material tuviera color blanco y adquiriese el formato de bobina, era preciso elaborarlo y lavarlo y someterlo a diferentes tinturas (cuyas fórmulas Lewissohn ocultaba a sus competidores de manera innecesaria y bastante romántica), y, desde los compartimentos donde se procedía a cardarlo, el material, con aspecto de lana blanca, salía flotando por los aires, se metía en la nariz, y se quedaba pegado en la ropa y en el pelo.
But before the stuff was white and on bolts, it had to be processed and washed and subjected to various rinses (whose formulae Lewissohn unnecessarily and rather romantically guarded from competitors), and from the carding stalls the white wool-like stuff floated out into the air, got into the nose, and stuck to the clothing and the hair.
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