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. |
The women would then spin these rough rovings into yarn wound on a spindle. |
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. |