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A History of the County of Hampshire
… 12th century, and indeed it was the Winchester wool and looms that brought English wool into so much reputation. 71 …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and also profited by the issue of licences to set up looms or take on apprentices and journeymen. Such entries as …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… miles thereof;" and at that time the manufacturers had 150 looms in full operation, affording occupation to more than …
A History of the County of Oxford
A History of the County of Oxford
… three Fiberweaving machines replacing 100 conventional looms and increasing output by 50 per cent. A fifth … 1974, when the last of Early's traditional shuttle power-looms and spinning mules were replaced by modern equipment. … in man-made fibres at four times the rate of conventional looms, was introduced in 1966 following a partnership with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… working craftsmen, usually operating at most four or five looms each with the help of apprentices, family members, and … typical of wealthier clothiers, at his death owning five looms in his house and in an adjoining workshop, a share in … the wealthier Joseph Selman (d. 1692) had at least two looms, with large quantities of yarn and wool in Witney and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… industry was transformed by the introduction of spring-looms and mechanized factory-spinning, the largely … donkey-powered spinning factory on Corn Street. 14 Power-looms seem not to have been introduced until the late 1850s or 1860s, 15 though spring-looms, which could be operated by one rather than two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to employ large numbers: in 1900 there were around 250 looms and 800 workers, half of them employed by Charles Early … & Co., and by 1922 there were over 1,000 workers and 400 looms. 4 Despite recession the industry still employed over a … the Second World War when the main firms operated 475 looms with 322 weavers, 7 and presumably large numbers were …
A History of the County of Oxford
A History of the County of Oxford
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