History of the Worsted Manufacture in EnglandFirst Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
MANUFACTURE AMONG THE ANCIENTS | 4 |
Hebrews their Manufacture ib Spinning a Domestic Employment ib | 16 |
Florence renowned for its Textile Fabrics 20 Likewise Venice 21 That | 26 |
CHAPTER III | 33 |
THE WORSTED MANUFACTURE IN ENGLANDFROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD | 39 |
Customs on Wool exported | 49 |
Great Era of the Worsted Manufacture in the reign of Edward III 50 | 58 |
Knight Description of his Apparel of Worsted 62 Wool exported from | 67 |
Sheep 318319320 Distribution of English LongWoolled Sheep 321 | 321 |
Introduction of Woolcombing Machines 322 Hand Spinning in the West | 331 |
Rollers in 1738337 A Description of his Apparatus 338 Not practically | 344 |
Improvements constituting the Throstle ib An Attempt to estimate Sir Richard | 353 |
Growth of the Manufacture in Bradford 357 Number of Pieces | 361 |
ment of the Century 362363 Seats of the Manufacture 334 Norwich | 373 |
Introduction of Plainbacks by Messrs Akroyd 374important bearing on | 379 |
Manufacture ib Damasks and Camblets incorporated among Halifax Produc | 420 |
Description of Worsteds then manufactured 68 Uses applied to 69 Large | 82 |
Norwich Apprentices 86 Shearmen of Worsted 87 Prices of Worsted ib | 89 |
Decline of the Worsted Manufacture in the time of Henry VIII 90 Statutes | 97 |
CHAPTER VI | 104 |
Description of Stuffs 109110 Foreign Weavers 111 Revival of Norwich | 113 |
Description of New Draperies 117118 Complaint of the City of London | 127 |
ing Stuffs 135 Foreign Trade in Worsteds 136 Decay of the Manufacture | 136 |
Ancient Worsteds 140 Dispute among the Worsted Weavers as to Ancient | 150 |
Norwich Trade decays ib Export of Stuffs to Turkey 151 Ordinance against | 160 |
Exeter Manufacture 161 Large Export for the Continent 162 French Manu | 181 |
Abroad 187188189 Wages of English Weavers 193194195 Description | 198 |
vogue ib London a Seat of the Manufacture 217 Statute for choosing | 199 |
adapted for Manufactures 200 Traces of the Shalloon Trade in Bradford | 213 |
Value of the Worsted Manufacture 234 Number of Persons employed | 233 |
therein and Value of the Manufacture 235 Estimate of the Quantity of Wool | 252 |
CHAPTER VIII | 258 |
Eighteenth Century 258 Increase of Norwich Trade List of its Manufactures | 266 |
Estimates of the Norwich Trade 273274 His Descriptions of other Localities | 277 |
Great Commotion among the Worsted Manufacturers respecting the Attempt | 298 |
Decrease of Export of Stuffs to Ireland 303 Smuggling of English Wool | 316 |
the Quantity of Wool grown in England in 1828 423 His Table of Long | 430 |
1826 to 1831 431 Wages of Worsted Operatives 432 Competition between | 437 |
Camblets exported to China 438 To the EastIndies c 439 Introduction | 443 |
CHAPTER XI | 451 |
Attempt at Naturalization in England 453 First Use of Alpaca Wool | 461 |
Mohair Yarn imported from the Levant 463 First spun | 467 |
Difficulties surmounted in Dyeing this Mixed Fabric ib Manufacture of these | 482 |
the Weight of the English Fleece 488 Amount of the Return of the Drawback | 489 |
Amount of their Manufacture 490 Large Export of Worsted Yarn 491 Table | 495 |
of Persons employed in the Worsted Factories in 1847 503 Increase | 506 |
Advance in Prices in 1850 509 Worsted Factories | 517 |
Report of Jurors on Worsted Stuffs at the Great Exhibition 518519 | 525 |
duction of Stuffs in Lancashire ib List of Stuffs 532 Worsted Factories | 543 |
HandLoom Weaver ib Rate of Mortality in Bradford Halifax c 551 | 551 |
Moral Condition of the Worsted Districts 553 Attendance at Places of Worship | 561 |
WORSTED PROCESSES | 562 |
CHAPTER XV | 585 |
Clothing Arts of the Ancient Britons 33 State thereof in Roman Britain 34 | 34 |
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