Shoddy and Mungo

Seen on a wall on the canal bank in Dewsbury.

The shoddy and mango industries are essentially waste wool industries.. 

The shoddy industry arose in 1813 in the woollen industries of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Rag machinery was used  to shred various wooden waste products from the spinning mills, tailors waste and textile mills waste products into fibres. The fibres could be mixed with a quantity of virgin wool to be mixed into new fibres which was what my dad did. These recycled fibres were made into blankets, underlay etc

Mungo used 'hard rags' in contrast from tailors shreds, coats, trousers, caps etc which were shredded by machines into a finer product called mungo