 | Richard Guest - 1823 - 110 pages
...the Manchester merchants. It was not until 1740, that the Manchester merchants began to give out 1 warps and raw cotton to the weavers, receiving them...paying for the carding, roving, spinning and weaving. After the fustians were manufactured the merchants dyed them, and then carried them to the principal... | |
 | James Wheeler (of Prestwich.) - 1836 - 562 pages
...term of labour to his own inclination. Still however, the weavers out-ran the spinners,notwithstanding the supplies of yarn from abroad, and there existed...about fourteen days, and he received for the weaving 18s.; spinning the weft, at ninepence per pound, 9s.; picking, carding, and roving, 9a.—Guest. was... | |
 | Samuel Salt - 1850 - 260 pages
...1740. The agency system commences, and cotton weaving extends into the country. 1740. About this time Manchester merchants began to give out warps and raw...paying for the carding, roving, spinning, and weaving. Guest says, " the weaving of a piece, containing twelve pounds of eighteenpenny weft, occupied a weaver... | |
 | American Geographical and Statistical Society - 1852 - 610 pages
...the weaver was continually pressing on the spinner. The Manchester merchants began to give out linen warps and raw cotton to the weavers, receiving them back in cloth, paying for the carding, roving, spinning and weaving. When finished, the cloth was dyed by the merchants,... | |
 | J. G. Dudley, John F. Entz - 1853 - 104 pages
...the weaver was continually pressing on the spinner. The Manchester merchants began to give out linen warps and raw cotton to the weavers, receiving them back in cloth, paying for the carding, roving, spinning and weaving. When finished, the cloth was dyed by the merchants,... | |
 | Edwin Butterworth - 1856 - 332 pages
...••endeavoured to secure good workmanship. V .1 It was not until 1710 that the Manchester traders J began to give out warps and raw cotton to the weavers,...{receiving them back in cloth, and paying for the cardiling, roving, spinning, nnd weaving. The weaver, if ^thc spinning was not done by his own family,... | |
 | J. G. Moore - 1860 - 358 pages
...improved oy John Wyatt, and a patent taken out by Lewis Paul, his partner. 1740. — About this time, Manchester merchants began to give out warps and raw...paying for the carding, roving, spinning, and weaving. Guest says, " The weaving of a piece, containing twelve pounds of eighteen-penny weft, occupied a weaver... | |
 | James A. Mann - 1860 - 170 pages
...person only to work and attend it. The manufacture too was being as it were centralized. About 1741, Manchester merchants began to give out warps and raw...weavers, receiving them back in cloth, and paying for carding, roving, spinning, and weaving. The weaving of a piece containing twelve pounds of Is. 6d.... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - 1874 - 224 pages
...— The agency system commences, and cotton weaving extends into the country. — — About this time Manchester merchants began to .give out warps and...to the weavers, receiving them back in cloth, and payin.? for the carding, roving, spinning, and weaving. The weaving of a piece containing twelve pounds... | |
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Manchester merchants began to give out warps and raw cotton to the weavers, receiving them back in cloth, and paying for the carding, roving, spinning, and weaving... 
