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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… which the town is chiefly celebrated, are sewing-silks, twist, buttons, ribbons, ferrets, galloons, handkerchiefs, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… at Leek in 1784, two of them also making buttons and silk twist, and there were four other makers of buttons and twist, two of them also producing sewing silk. 73 By 1797 the … considerable silk industry was producing sewing silks, twist, buttons, silk ferrets, shawls, and silk handkerchiefs. …