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Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… detailed at length for the promotion of the linen trade, weaving, bleaching and fisheries of Scotland. [ North Britain …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… propose to put those already perfected in the mystery of weaving fine linen apprentice on the same terms for a year to … cambric weavers in Edinburgh to be perfected in the art of weaving cambrics. Some of the foreign cambric weavers brought …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… have at their own expense erected several plain looms for weaving linen which are valued at 30 l. each and other looms …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… fastness. It was used particularly to dye the YARN before weaving COTTON CLOTH and in PRINTED - CALICO. The technique …
A History of the County of Essex
… found that 'the whole town is employed in spinning, weaving, washing, drying, and dressing their bays', 49 while …
A History of the County of Essex
… pull down. Their main demand was for better wages for bay weaving, although Furley's particular crime was 'selling corn …
A History of the County of York
… economic decline which underlay them? The once-dominant weaving industry had collapsed before Tudor times. The … to lend them £7 for this purpose. 27 As early as 1517 weaving failed to appear in a list of the thirteen most … profit. Craforth concludes his letter by pointing out why weaving had migrated to Halifax, Leeds, and Wakefield: not …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… enlarged, is for cotton-spinning and power-loom weaving; it is worked by a large water-wheel and two …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the rest of the population is engaged in hand-loom weaving, in agriculture, and in collieries. The village of …