crimping-machine

Updated: May 31, 2025

The process was simple enough, to watch the skilled fingers of the other girls, but it was very tedious to my untried hand. In awkward, self-conscious fashion I began to open out the crimped wads of scarlet muslin which came to us hot from the crimping-machine.

Dorothy Richardson - The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself