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Middlesex county records
… Sir Richard Titchborne knight, and stole therefrom a black plush coat worth ten pounds, a blacke plush doublet worth fifty shillings, and a pair of blacke plush breeches worth sixty shillings, together with other …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… (1760). In 1760 took app. named Hunt. [S of G, app. index] Plush, William, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet …
A History of the County of Oxford
… weaving industry and later of Shutford as a centre of the plush industry, together with the construction of the … pursuits. 571 In 1841 Bodicote had at least 10 families of plush-weavers, a linen-weaver, a stocking-weaver, a … a machine-maker, and a dyer; at Milton there were 6 plush-weavers; there were 26 weavers in Adderbury East and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 340 In the early 19th century there were shagweavers and plush-weavers in the town, 341 and the 1851 census listed 13 weavers, of whom 5 were employed in Edward Gascoigne's plush manufactory; the other 4 plush-weavers, 3 linen-weavers and a ribbon-weaver probably …
A History of the County of Oxford
… examples of the furnishing fabrics of the Shutford plush industry. At the end of the 16th century the castle was … of Banbury, itself a flourishing centre of the industry. Plush-weaving at nearby Shutford was certainly in existence … 24v.; map of 1685 at Broughton Castle. R. P. Beckinsale, 'Plush industry of Oxfordshire', Oxoniensia, xxviii. 65. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 18th-century hempdressers, 147 a collar-maker, 148 and a plush-weaver 149 have also been noticed. In 1851 there were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… modern sculptors, including Henry Moore, favour it. 208 Plush-weaving was another minor industry carried on in Horley … weavers were listed for the 1851 census, as well as two plush-weavers and a shag-weaver. 209 In the 20th century most …