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798 x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
Table 122. Imports and exports of wool and woollen stuffs.
In quintals à 1’97 cwts.
Average for the years Wool. Woollen yarn, nndyed. Woollen yarn, dyed. Woollen cloths.
Imports. Exports. Imports. Exports. Imports. Exports. Imports. Export*.
1861/65........... 12,877 110 693 1,118 2 4,935 36
1866/70........... 13,753 202 626 3 1,322 1 5,213 246
1871/75........... 17,524 318 1,427 4 3,420 6 16,000 460
1876/80........... 13,731 146 1,525 2 4,072 7 16,842 894
1881/85........... 18,429 271 3,910 3 5,436 27 22,442 1,023
1886/90........... 21,790 286 8,950 45 5,752 460 23,062 1,586
1891/95.......... 24,001 252 14,263 53 4,528 777 25,776 2,603
1896/00.......... 33,602 491 21,468 116 5,188 1,076 22,399 2,386
In 1900.......... 40,950 615 16,749 403 4,850 1,424 17,300 873
textiles, both absolutely and relatively, has diminished; in 1881/85, 71 tf
of the entire import were textiles, whereas in 1900 only 41 %.
The wool manufactories of Sweden are to a large extent situated
in Norrköping, where in 1850 there were no less than 122 cloth
manufactories, but now, since the smaller ones have for the most part
disappeared, only about 30, amongst which may be mentioned the Drag,
Bergsbro, Gamlabro, and Ström joint-stock companies. Norrköping, »the
Manchester of Sweden», has a particularly advantageous situation for this
industry, having abundant supply of waterpower. For more than 200
years, this town has been the center of a flourishing textile industry.
Among the other larger wool manufactories, may be mentioned
Stock-holms yllefabrik, Malmö yllefabrik (with 374 looms and 12,340 spindles),
Wallbergs fabriksaktiebolag1 in Halmstad, C. O. Borgs söner in Lund,
as well as several factories in Borås, amongst which a wool and vigogne
spinning-mill, and also a worsted spinning-mill. There is also a number
of spinning-mills in the rural districts, mainly for the treatment of
native wool.
"Whilst the larger factories have become more and more developed, even
if partly at the expense of the smaller ones, the value of production has
during the last thirty or forty years been doubled or trebled. The
manufacture of fine cloth for wearing apparel seems gradually to be decreasing,
whereas the contrary is the case with regard to the coarser kinds. The
Drag joint-stock company’s manufactures of cloth for uniforms, suits,
and overcoats, of black cloths, satins, and twills are well-known and, in
respect to quality, can compete with the best foreign fabrics. Coarser
cloths, such as duffel, baize, corduroy, and frieze, etc., are manufactured
on a large scale in Sweden, as well as shawls, rugs, blankets, flannels,
and linsey stuffs (thread-cloth, buckskin, velvets, etc.). Latterly
combing-wool cloths for ladies have begun to be manufactured by Aktiebolaget
Merinos1 in Borås, as cheviots, thibet, paramatta, etc., both pure wool
1 Aktiebolag = joint-stock company. Ylle = wool.
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