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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Several of the females are employed in knitting white-yarn stockings. The market, granted in 1331, by Edward III., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to the introduction of machinery, the spinning of woollen-yarn prevailed to a considerable extent in private houses: …
A History of the County of Somerset
… dye house, cloth press, furnace, tools, cloth, wool, and yarn. 44 Outhouses at West End were leased 'for the clothing …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… bucking, that is, of steeping or boiling CLOTH, CLOTHING, YARN, etc. in order to bleach them. OED earliest date of use: … [bucking pott] It was probably a large POT in which CLOTH, YARN, CLOTHING etc. could be boiled and thus bleached in a … sometimes with an outlet for drainage, in which CLOTH, YARN or APPAREL was bleached or washed, particularly when …
A Dictionary of London
… coarse kind of cloth, and they seem also to have prepared yarn for the use of the weavers, although the two trades were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… erected in 1804, and handsomely fitted up. The spinning of yarn was formerly the principal source of employment for the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with fossils, is abundant. A mill for spinning worsted-yarn affords employment to about 100 persons; and there is a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… or STRIPED 'in foreign parts' and included in the ban the YARN from which calicoes were made [Acts (1700)]. This was an … difficulty British weavers had in producing a strong, even yarn. The prohibitions were extended yet further by …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… mill by Samuel and John Dowding, who made rugs, mops, and yarn there. W. J. Dowding made cloth and paper at Hole mill …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (1984), 187, Yule and Burnell (1886, pb 1996). Camel yarn [camel or mohair-yarn; camel or mohair yarn] YARN spun from the HAIR of the Angora GOAT. This was, …