Lancashire WorthiesSimpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1874 - 469 pages |
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... spinning - jenny - almost certainly by James Hargreaves - began that development of the British cotton manufacture ... Spinning Machinery , contained in a recent Number of the " Edinburgh Review . " Robert Cole , Some Account of Lewis ...
... spinning - jenny - almost certainly by James Hargreaves - began that development of the British cotton manufacture ... Spinning Machinery , contained in a recent Number of the " Edinburgh Review . " Robert Cole , Some Account of Lewis ...
Page 295
Francis Espinasse. Kay there might have been no Hargreaves , or no spinning- jenny ; without the spinning - jenny no Arkwright and no Crompton . Before the era of Arkwright , an English cotton - manufac- ture , in the strict sense of the ...
Francis Espinasse. Kay there might have been no Hargreaves , or no spinning- jenny ; without the spinning - jenny no Arkwright and no Crompton . Before the era of Arkwright , an English cotton - manufac- ture , in the strict sense of the ...
Page 305
... spinning , and weaving . After the fustians were manufactured , the merchants dyed them , and then carried them to the principal towns in the kingdom on pack - horses , opening their packs and selling to shopkeepers as they went along ...
... spinning , and weaving . After the fustians were manufactured , the merchants dyed them , and then carried them to the principal towns in the kingdom on pack - horses , opening their packs and selling to shopkeepers as they went along ...
Page 306
... spinning . " The fustian - master " attended the weekly market at Manchester , and sold his pieces in the grey to the merchant , who afterwards dyed them and finished them . " For the conversion of the cotton - wool supplied him into ...
... spinning . " The fustian - master " attended the weekly market at Manchester , and sold his pieces in the grey to the merchant , who afterwards dyed them and finished them . " For the conversion of the cotton - wool supplied him into ...
Page 307
... spinning of wool or cotton , as well as forming it into warps for the loom . The husband and sons would next , at times when farm labour did not call them abroad , size the warp , dry it and beam it in the loom , and either they or the ...
... spinning of wool or cotton , as well as forming it into warps for the loom . The husband and sons would next , at times when farm labour did not call them abroad , size the warp , dry it and beam it in the loom , and either they or the ...
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Page 307 - IOS. per statute acre; and out of these fifty or sixty farmers, there were only six or seven who raised their rents directly from the produce of their farms; all the rest got their rent partly in some branch of trade, such as spinning and weaving woollen, linen, or cotton. The cottagers were employed entirely in this manner, except for a few weeks in the harvest.