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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… women, in winding bobbins. The linen made here is chiefly dowlas sheeting, for which a ready market is obtained in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… manufactures are carried on, except the weaving of linen dowlas for a house in Aberdeen, in which fourteen handlooms …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… engaged in spinning and weaving, and the manufacture of dowlas, ticks, and checks. A post-office has been established …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Peckham Rye of 54 acres, Goose Green, Moulsey Common and Dowlas Common. Dulwich Common, of 130 acres, had been … (formerly OVEDALE, hence Dovedale, Dowdale, and now Dowlas Lane). A certain Alexander de Titsey seems to have …
Magna Britannia
… upon a less extensive scale. There is a manufactory of dowlas and other coarse linens at Fordton in this parish, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… late 18th century the town had a small share in the linen, dowlas, and tick-weaving industry based at Mere, but had …
A History of the County of Somerset
… there was a silk-house in 1798, and the manufacture of Dowlas, Teck, and sailcloth employed many people. 220 There …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and more later in the century, when they were joined by dowlas-weavers and yarn-washers, most if not all of whom … in the parish were employed in trade and manufacture of dowlas, a time when at least five men described themselves as …
A History of the County of Somerset
… introduced in 1722 and poor children were taught to weave dowlas between 1751 and 1768. 566 In 1842 sums were raised to …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… employed in linen-weaving, of which the chief article is dowlas, for the manufacturers of the neighbouring towns, who …