Show Called Wool Cotton for Many Years in Britain Very few of of- the millions of Lan Lan- Lancashire LancashIre Lancashire folk who get their living from cotton arc are aware of ot how it came to get that name Yet the word cotton had made itself at home in Britain long before we began to im Ira- import port the hairs of the shrub or cotton plant Wool was called cotton six centuries ago says saysa a writer in Pearsons Pearson's Weekly In the Fourteenth century a col colony col- col colony ony of ot Germans were brought over from the continent by Edward III of Man Man- Manchester Manchester and were sent to the village chester amid country that was then wild and barren to spin and weave woolen stuffs Shirts in those days were woven of hair and gowns were woolen And for some years the woolen fabrics of Manchester were known to our ancestors as cotton The words cot cottage cathouse and coast besides cotton all mean things laid alongside each other like the straw in thatch the fibres on thread and the sea and land along the shore Many other things be be- besides besides sides cotton have obtained their names from the way in which they are worked About years after the arrival of the German colony of cotton spinners of woolen stuffs the hairs of the found their way into England from Turkey and were wrought into Manchester goods Although Al Al- Although Although though a vegetable had replaced an nn animal material the old name of the manufacturing process stuck to the new fabric |