worn-out cloth. The rags collected in the cities are assorted and baled. Cotton rags are sold to paper mills for use in making commercial stationery, known in the trade as rag paper. Linen rags go to the same destination to be used in making stationer's linen or correspondence papers. The woolen rags go to the shoddy mill to be unraveled, picked into the original wool, recarded, spun and woven, either alone or mixed with new wool, into cheap cloth. See SHODDY.