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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the township. The population is employed in hand-loom weaving, chiefly at their own homes. The greater part of the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… made from carded WOOL in plain weave and fulled after weaving. It was distinguished in 1 RIC3 C8 (1483/4) from … the already whitened WOOLLEN YARN was usually dyed before weaving. Brown blue was surprisingly expensive, valuations of …
History Theses 1901-1970
… Beckles. Dundee Ph.D. 1968. The decline of the handloom weaving industry in Scotland during the years 181545. Mrs. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Trowbridge, Melksham, and Staverton, in the weaving of cloth, in which about 300 persons, and many of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1300 acres. A few women are occasionally employed in weaving serges by hand-loom. Adjoining the churchyard is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is partly employed in the manufacture of lace and the weaving of stockings: there are three corn-mills, and one for … common or waste. A small number of persons are employed in weaving and glove-making. Stone is quarried for the roads. …
A Dictionary of London
… the Guild of Weavers was trying to monopolise the craft of weaving cloth in the City, ordained that all freemen of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… been introduced, and large establishments for spinning, weaving, and printing cotton, have been erected. Coal, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… manufactories, twenty-six cotton-mills for spinning and weaving, six iron-foundries, and four paper-mills; in which … William Greg and Company employs 500 hands in spinning and weaving, using 25,000 lb. of cotton, and consuming 60 tons of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the mills were being used for both spinning and power-loom weaving. 9 They were said in 1794 to employ several hundred …