Alfred Dolge - Carbonizing and bleach process

[Isaac OLEG]

Stephane, Indeed, Verviers, sorry for the confusion and thanks for
correting me.

I also was amazed by the name of the inventor of the Leviathan machine
(or the owner of the biggest washing factory more probably), Mr
Laoureux de Verviers, and I suppose he is an ancestor of our felt
maker.
I have read the story of wool washing in Verviers in a document in
French I've find simply with a goggle search.

Was said that the town industry was doing so well than there where at
some point too much washing plants for the wool to be treated, and
then the apparition of others places was the sign of the end of the
supremacy of the town.

BTW wool came from Australia as well and the need for the machine to
clean the wool was due to the availability of south america wool,
thinner but with more thisles than the others.

Best Regards.

Isaac OLEG





-----Message d'origine-----
De : Stéphane Collin [mailto:collin.s@skynet.be]
Envoyé : mercredi 19 mai 2004 01:23
À : oleg-i@noos.fr; Pianotech
Objet : Re: Alfred Dolge - Carbonizing and bleach process


Hi Isaac.

Nice post.
But the town you refer to as center of wool washing in the 19th
century
is Verviers, not Serviers.  I happened to be brought up in this
wonderful little town.  From the plenty of glorious wool washers that
made fortunes there, only one survived until today, and he is making
THE
green billiard felt for the whole world.  All others have ran out of
business early in the 20th century.  But you can still see the sings
of
their former fortune in their descendance.  Verviers is what you would
call a has been town.
Should I put this under OT ?

Stéphane Collin.

Isaac OLEG a écrit :

> nd vegetal residues (it was even hand cleaned, by prisoners, was
said,
> before 1860 and the apparition of "the leviathan" a machine
developed
> by Mr. De Laoureux de Serviers, who lived in SERVIERS, in Belgium,
and
> this town was the "only"  European place for wool washing and
> preparation before making cloth or felt with it (till other places
> appear near Hamburg in the 1910 )
>