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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are chiefly employed in the spinning of flax and the weaving of linen, for which extensive mills have been erected …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… supply of the parish and surrounding district, and in the weaving of cloth, in which latter about 200 of the … The village is inhabited principally by persons engaged in weaving, and the manufacture of a coarse kind of … from 33,000 to 36,000. About 350 persons are occupied in weaving yarn, by hand-looms, into cloth of different fabrics, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Lamb's Fields and around Virginia Row. 34 A survey of the weaving districts in 1838 and published in 1840 35 remarked … overcrowding, together with the unhealthy effects of the weaving industry, produced a stunted and sickly population. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… there were old houses where the upper room, once used for weaving, had been partitioned into two or three rooms for two …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… materials from India and Persia, which had 'extinguished' weaving and its dependent trades. 74 In 1719-20 there were … journeymen and 'other inferior artificers belonging to the weaving trade'. 77 Giles Bigot (d. 1742), for example, whose … heavers to press for lower food prices and help for the weaving industry but the Bethnal Green magistrates prevented …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of sheeting and 'camblets' for those accustomed to weaving and shoemaking and slop work 73 for the others. 74 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… such people were migrating to Essex and the decline of weaving and growth of apathy led to the closure of the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of only 13-19 ft., were built for the predominantly weaving population which spread from Spitalfields. Some … persisted, to be exploited by Joseph Merceron, until weaving was again depressed by the repeal of the Acts in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… century, Bideford was in its highest prosperity. The weaving of silk was introduced in 1650, and after the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The population are engaged in agriculture, hand-loom weaving, in quarrying stone, and in collieries, of which last …