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A History of the County of Lancaster
… a 'footing' here, but was abandoned, and about 1830 silk-weaving also was attempted. 9 About the same time hat-making …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Darwen was noted as far back as the 17th century for the weaving by hand-looms of checked cotton cloths and calicoes, … register as 'webster.' At this time the supply of yarn for weaving and the sale of cotton pieces in various markets was … in the township. The prosperity of the hand-loom weaving industry reached its height about the beginning of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… employments are those of coal-mining, cotton-spinning and weaving, and engineering. 3 The principal landowners are Lord …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… chief occupation of the people, but bleaching, hand-loom weaving, and hat-making had at one time been pursued to a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… as late as 1829. 3 There was till recently some hand-loom weaving. There are two small weaving-mills and two bobbinworks. The Preston Union …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Burnley. In and near it are extensive cotton spinning and weaving mills, a paper-mill, colliery, brewery, brick works …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 8 There was a paper-mill at Old Trafford in 1765. Weaving was formerly one of the chief industries. The wakes …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… chapel, and school. The villagers combined agriculture and weaving. Lancs. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lancs, and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… employed in the collieries and in the cotton spinning and weaving industry. In 1863 the township adopted the Local …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Travers [travors; travice; traver; trauors] A piece of weaving equipment not found in the dictionaries and in the …