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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… 114 inhabitants, employed in agriculture, and in hand-loom weaving at their own dwellings. Balmerino BALMERINO, a … who were once employed in the fishery, are now engaged in weaving at their own houses, for the manufacturers of Dundee; … range of houses, chiefly inhabited by persons employed in weaving and in agriculture. There is a place of worship for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of substance, and the Cobb family, prominent in the local weaving industry from about 1688, were closely connected with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Banbury weavers were mostly part-time workers, combining weaving with agricultural work; there was no large-scale … in the breadth of cloth woven. 309 Cobb's factory for weaving, webbing, and horsecloths was founded c. 1700 310 and … the 1790s the plush-weavers had a trade society. 316 The weaving industry may have been helped by the completion of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… collecting centre that the town participated in the plush weaving industry that developed in the district. The industry …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Cobb, a partner in Cobbs' Bank and his family's girth-weaving business and a Unitarian, and Samuel Beesley, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… neatly built, and chiefly inhabited by persons employed in weaving for the manufacturers of the neighbouring towns, and … females employ themselves, to a large extent, in stocking-weaving. The ecclesiastical affairs are under the … of the district, consisting of cotton spinning and weaving, and printing, bleaching, and dyeing, all extensively …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 580 inhabitants, a portion of whom are employed in the weaving of stockings. The chapel is dedicated to St. Giles. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… there are three mills, and many are engaged in hand-loom weaving. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… not less than 4000 hand-looms are constantly employed in weaving these articles in an endless variety of patterns, … higher wages than they previously earned by hand-loom weaving. The total amount of the linens manufactured averages …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is generally fertile, and the population is employed in weaving, bleaching, in the collieries of Gawber, and in …