| The rovings are collected in a drum and proceed to the slubbing frame which adds twist, and winds onto bobbins. |
| Asphalt emulsion finds a more general use as a tackifier to hold rovings and straw in place. |
| Carding completed the disentangling process, creating rolls of wool called rovings. |
| The women would then spin these rough rovings into yarn wound on a spindle. |
| At the other end of the process of manufacture, there were merchants who organized the ginning and bowing of the raw cotton and sold the rovings to the spinners. |
| The throstle and the later water frame pulled the rovings through a set of attenuating rollers. |
