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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… like frauds in upholstery wares, in the dressing, dyeing, weaving, and making up of cloth, bayes, and most other …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… say that thousands of poor families heretofore employed in weaving worsted stuffs now want work. The high duties on …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… their opinion on Wednesday. 5. The regulating of the weaving of darnix to be considered on Friday the 21st inst. …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… M r Lewis Cromelin and others, who had erected looms for weaving fine linen in Ireland. The certificate is dated 16 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 1656 under Testudineous Sources: Acts. Warp [warpe] In weaving, the threads that are extended lengthwise in the … in order to protect the threads during the stresses of weaving. The sized skeins were mounted on some device like a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… adapted for classification; the prisoners are employed in weaving coarse cloths, calico, and linsey, and in other work. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… inhabited chiefly by persons engaged in the mines and in weaving, and by agricultural labourers, and artisans in … A few of the inhabitants of both are employed in hand-loom weaving for the cotton manufacturers of Glasgow. Facility of … is diversified; the inhabitants are chiefly employed in weaving at their own houses for the manufacturers of Dundee, …