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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is a favourite place of residence. The spinning of cotton-yarn, which was introduced here in 1785, is still carried on, … employed, has been recently enlarged, and the quantity of yarn produced averages 4000 pounds per week. The usual … society. The principal manufactures are, the spinning of yarn from flax and tow, the weaving of canvass and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and at Coupland-Beck is a carding and spinning mill, where yarn is spun for coarse woollen cloth, stockings, and …
The Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London: Documents
… on a hearth between the andirons. Crewel, 18. A worsted yarn. See also Chain-lace, Dornick, Girdles Crewel lace, 64 … 2 Inkle, 18. A kind of linen tape, or the thread or yarn from which it is made. Ireos ('Erius'), 154. Root of the … 761. See also Bast-ropes, Cables, Cordage, Warps Rope-yarn, 435 Rosalger, 2. Disulphide of arsenic, used as a …
The Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London: Documents
A New History of London
… Worsted stockings, the twenty pair shall pay two pence. Yarn, being woollen, cruel, linnen, worsted, or jersey, every …
A New History of London
… Romneys, bastards, tents and Alicants, the pipe 1 0 0 Yarn, cable, the cwt. qt. 112lb. 0 1 0 Yarn, grogram or moyhair, the cwt. qt. five score 1 6 0 Yarn, cotton, the cwt. qt. five score 0 4 0 Yarn, Irish, the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Article, for the Women are employed in spinning it into Yarn and knitting it into Stockings, or send it to be woven … there are Weavers employed by the Peasantry to make their Yarn into Cloth. It is only occasionally. They do not weave …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… for not reeling the yarns as they ought: that defective yarn be destroyed, which will tend to a consumption of wool, … comber from conniving, and make a good commodity both of yarn and stuffs to the whole nation. Whereas 'tis objected …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… trade and manufactures, the principal of which latter are yarn and brown linen. Fairs are held in the village in April …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 19th-century workhouse. 82 Expenditure on linen, thread, yarn, and knitting needles in 1678 and later was presumably …