The History of the Woollen and Worsted IndustriesA. & C. Black, Limited, 1921 - 273 pages |
Other editions - View all
The History of the Woollen and Worsted Industries (Classic Reprint) E. Lipson No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
apprentices apprenticeship Arkwright artisans Bradford broad brought capitalist carding carried centres cloth manufacture cloth trade cloth-finishers cloth-making cloth-workers clothiers Colchester comb combers cotton craft gilds decay domestic system dressed dyeing dyers earnings economic eighteenth century employed employers employment England English erected export factory system facture fly shuttle foreign fullers gig mills gild system Gloucestershire Halifax hand hand-loom weavers History houses Industrial Revolution inhabitants introduced invention inventor jenny journeymen labour Lancashire Leeds Lewis Paul London loom machine manu master ment merchants Norwich organised Parliament patent persons piece poor pounds power-loom processes Richard Arkwright rollers roving shear shearmen shillings shire sixteenth century Somersetshire spindle spinners spinning spun Statute Suffolk thread tion Tiverton towns wages warp water-frame weavers weaving week weft West Country West Riding Wiltshire women wool wool-combers woollen and worsted woollen cloth woollen industry woollen manufacture workmen worsted industry yarn Yorkshire
Popular passages
Page 138 - And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin is broken, and become loathsome. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
Page 7 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Page 83 - I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down.
Page 17 - In one single street, named the Strand, leading to St Paul's there are fifty-two goldsmiths' shops, so rich and full of silver vessels, great and small, that in all the shops in Milan, Rome, Venice and Florence put together, I do not think there would be found so many of the magnificence that are to be seen in London.
Page 84 - They will here meet with ruts which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer.
Page 75 - At the side was a pan or basin of milk, and the master and apprentices, each with a wooden spoon in his hand, without loss of time dipped into the same dish and thence into the...
Page 82 - When the Manchester trade began to extend, the chapmen used to keep gangs of pack-horses and accompany them to the principal towns with goods in packs, which they opened and sold to shopkeepers, lodging what was unsold in small stores at the inns. The...
Page 104 - Of all sorts of callings that in England be, There is none that liveth so gallant as we"; Our trading maintains us as brave as a knight, We live at our pleasure, and take our delight ; We heapeth up riches and treasure great store, Which we get by griping and grinding the poor. And this is a way for to fill up our purse, Although we do get it with many a curse.
Page 96 - ... persons of quality dressed in Indian carpets, which but a few years before their chambermaids would have thought too ordinary for them : the chints was advanced from lying upon their floors to their backs, from the foot-cloth to the petticoat ; and even the queen herself at this time was pleased to appear in China and Japan, I mean China, silks and calico. Nor was this all, but it crept into our houses, our closets, and bed-chambers ; curtains, cushions, chairs, and at last beds themselves, were...
Page 14 - Happy the yeoman's house into which one of these Dutchmen did enter, bringing industry and wealth along with them. Such who came in strangers within...