Paper is made from rags.

>Greetings Everyone,
>
>I am posting these two images to several textile history listservs in
>the hopes of getting information about the ragstock business in the
>U.S. in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. This box was called a
>fabric press by the descendents of the family that used it. It stood
>in the basement of their store, and old textiles were dropped down a
>chute into the box and pressed into a bale. I am attempting to
>discover what was done with the ragstock, and whether it was a local
>business that utilized them. Uses of textiles after their primary life
>was over is not something I know much about, and we are trying to
>determine if this is an artifact we want for our collection.
>
>Thanks,
>Peggy Derrick
>Curator, La Crosse County Historical Society
>
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