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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a small scale for the making of serge; and the spinning of yarn affords employment to a few persons. The market is on …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Candle rod [candle rode] A ROD on which lengths of WICK YARN were tied and suspended in molten TALLOW or WAX for … on this, describing WORSTED cantaloon as a BUFFIN with yarn of two colours twisted in the WARP and a third colour … TROYES, WHITE, YORKSHIRE Found describing CLOTH, SHEETING, YARN Found used to make APRON, BAG, BED at sea, board cloth, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to the purpose of an improved manufactory of woollen yarn for Canterbury worsted, into which article it converts …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and contain 110,000 spindles: a considerable part of the yarn spun is used by the manufacturers of Carlisle, and some …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… for the year. A considerable quantity of coarse linen yarn is spun and woven by the inhabitants of the mountainous … for luffing and spinning, which prepare the worsted yarn, and in some instances manufacture it into cloth. At …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… inhabitants are employed in the spinning of flax, tow, and yarn, the raw materials for which are brought from Dundee, to which town, and also to the manufacturers of Fife, the yarn is sent. Two mills for these purposes were erected in … Thursday in November, for the sale of sackcloth, linen-yarn, and pottery-ware; and the road from Dunse to Ayton runs …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… from crimped horsehair and probably used linen and woollen yarn for webbing. 1 Humphrey Bidgood of Haselbury was said to … loading door. There was a twine walk in the yard. The yarn for both twine and warp was spun at the factory in … and setting poor people to work combing, spinning, making yarn, and knitting stockings. After a serious assault and …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Richard Brooke and his wife, and to her servants. All my yarn & hemp I give & bequeath amongst my laundry servants, …