Both of these industries no longer exist in the UK. When they were active, Lancashire was well known for its cotton mills and Yorkshire for its woollen mills.
No. cotton comes from plants. wool comes from sheep or goats. There are some similarities in the machines and processes used in spinning some cotton yarns and some wool (worsted) yarns but they can not be interchanged.
As woolen are hotter than cotton garments.
It's warmer
b- Wuppertal
Lebarca wool blankets
in summer-cotton in winter-woolen in monsoon-rainy
The woolen textile industry doubled in size
wool produced in the colonies could only be Britain. Colonists could only wear woolen clothes. Colonists could not were woolen clothes. Wool produced in the colonies could be freely exported to any county.
It originally was built to support the lumber industry with sawmills. Businesses included saw mills, flower mills, woolen mills, iron works, paper mills, cotton mills, and a railroad machine shop.
Punjab Woolen Industry Pvt.Ltd. Shahdara Lahore-Pakistan. Chief Executive Ch. Muhammad Iqbal Chishti
Ken Skulski has written: 'Mill time' -- subject(s): History, Woolen and worsted manufacture, Woolen goods industry 'Lawrence, Massachusetts Volume II'
Wool holds in body moisture and insulates from cold, keeping you warm. Cotton absorbs moisture and does not insulate well.