Alfred Dolge - Carbonizing and bleach process

[Stéphane Collin]

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 )
>