The rags are first sorted into linen and cotton, and into coloured and uncoloured rags.

首先, 人们将麻布与棉布分开, 然后再将染色的与未染色的破布分开。

Several clothes-horses, a pillion, a spinning-wheel, and an old box wide open and stuffed full of coloured rags.

几架晾衣架、一个后座、一个纺车和一个敞开着的旧箱子， 里面塞满了彩色破布。