“Cotton Beating. We had quilts made of layers of fluffed cotton. Paddings for garments were made this way also. Note the spring pole holding the ‘harp’." From the lantern slide show of Rolland and Lottie Welch, who served under the United Evangelical Mission / Evangelical church in Hunan, China, from 1917 to 1923.
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