Wool Sorter

Stewart Morrison when he was in the mill was in it from top to bottom, from carder to spinner and weaver, from wool-sorter to cloth-hall inspector, to make sure that the manufacturing principles for which All-Wool Morrison stood were carried out to the last detail. ❋ Holman Day (1900)

The relation of our sense-organs to the several degrees of matter, to solids, fluids, gases, atmospheric and etheric motions, vary in different individuals to such a wide extent that the average wool-sorter leaves many an artist behind in his perception of colour-shades. ❋ 1864-1929 Sepharial (1896)

He went to a young fellow, a wool-sorter in the mills, who was a corporal in the militia, to obtain the necessary information to make his application. ❋ Homer Greene (1896)

The average wool-sorter will outvie an artist in his perception of colour shades. ❋ 1864-1929 Sepharial (1896)

Baldy and all of us ---- and especially visitors when they came -- were mighty interested in Bogan; and I reckon we were rather proud of having a blind wool-sorter. ❋ Henry Lawson (1894)

Sometimes he worked for a while himself as bookkeeper at a shearing-shed, wool-sorter, shearer, even rouseabout; he'd work at anything a bushman could get to do. ❋ Henry Lawson (1894)

The first half - how an illiterate Yorkshire wool-sorter learnt to read at 15 and rose to be Oxford's first professor of philology - is stirring stuff. ❋ Unknown (2009)