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- .../ref> Other early industries in the town included coal mining, fishing and handloom weaving.<ref name="mcsherry3"/>2 KB (214 words) - 13:22, 31 August 2010
- ...e portion of the workforce in outlying rural areas. Nevertheless, the last handloom shop in Blackburn closed in 1894.<ref>Beattie (1992), pp. 16–18.</re ...nemployment: according to figures published in March 1826, some 60% of all handloom weavers in Blackburn and nearby [[Rishton]], Lower Darwen and [[Oswaldtwist30 KB (4,592 words) - 13:34, 27 January 2016
- .... The town economy has shifted over the past three centuries from farming, handloom weaving and mining to light engineering, transport and service industries.10 KB (1,586 words) - 22:26, 5 June 2017
- ...astructure encouraged industrialists to modify Littleborough's traditional handloom cloth workshops with a mechanised form of textile production. Attracted to6 KB (877 words) - 10:10, 8 June 2018
- ...oms were introduced in factories in Manchester there was less work for the handloom weavers and there was serious unemployment in the town. In 1827 silk weavin30 KB (4,552 words) - 08:23, 19 September 2019
- ...the Industrial Revolution, and is said to have employed as many as 18,000 handloom weavers at the end of the 19th century, a figure significantly higher than27 KB (4,306 words) - 17:54, 29 January 2016
- ...d so as vividly to recreate the living and working conditions of a typical handloom weaver. Demonstrations are held in the techniques, to weave by hand a paisl1 KB (202 words) - 13:07, 6 March 2013
- ...Scotland]], which keeps weaving in operation, and where guides demonstrate handloom weaving to visitors.3 KB (419 words) - 13:08, 6 March 2013
- ...Newmilns by this time had a long-established weaving tradition, the town's handloom industry rose to national prominence.<ref name="hn_lace" /> The success of ...life, was responsible for many weaving innovations.<ref name="hn_lace" /> Handloom weaving however was in decline. The introduction of the power loom in 187728 KB (4,419 words) - 20:25, 29 January 2021
- ...town in 1716, but it quickly rose to prominence again thanks mainly to the handloom industry.2 KB (381 words) - 19:53, 28 January 2016
- ...was diverted as the Stour became navigable as far as Sudbury in 1709. The handloom weaving industry was gone by the 1800s; the last weaver died in 1825, aged21 KB (3,534 words) - 22:35, 30 April 2018
- In the 18th and 19th centuries Arbirlot was principally occupied by handloom weavers and farmers, Arbirlot once had a meal mill, a slaughterhouse, two s3 KB (530 words) - 22:27, 11 September 2014
- ...p farming, in the absence of ready water power, remained domestic - mainly handloom weaving and the making of felt hats.20 KB (3,361 words) - 23:23, 16 November 2018
- ...lace, as a centre for weaving, spinning, shoemaking and fustian cutting". Handloom weaving may have survived in the area to as late as the 1880s (Melson's Dir16 KB (2,603 words) - 13:37, 27 January 2016
- ...[Castle Douglas]]. The village was developed in the late 18th century as a handloom weaving centre, within the existing parish of the same name. The present ch1 KB (172 words) - 17:52, 23 October 2015
- ...Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton. In its day the village was busy with handloom weaving and a cotton-mill. Many of its buildings are grade 'B' or 'C' liste Handloom weaving became the main industry until the establishment of a water powered17 KB (2,648 words) - 21:04, 12 June 2015
- ...Neilston's economy was historically driven by farming, although a trade in handloom woven garments from the village's cottage industry also existed from very e20 KB (3,070 words) - 18:20, 26 January 2019
- ...he population of the parish was 2,154 and about sixty of these people were handloom weavers. There were inns and shops and the Lime Works Blacketridge. Tradesm3 KB (405 words) - 09:47, 25 October 2015
- At the beginning of the 19th century it is recorded that some 50 [[handloom]] were in use in the village with a population of 380 persons. This follows8 KB (1,352 words) - 17:03, 27 January 2016
- ...p=76|ps=}} Fustians, muslins and, after 1827, silk were woven in the area. Handloom weaving declined after the cotton factory was built. Arrowsmith's factory l22 KB (3,330 words) - 22:41, 26 December 2016
- ...tral marketing, finishing and fellmongering hub.<ref name="GMArch35"/> The handloom weaving of woollen cloth and flannels in the domestic system became the sta24 KB (3,653 words) - 08:33, 19 September 2019
- ...associated with agriculture developed, such as smithies and wheelwrights. Handloom weaving and basket making were also undertaken together with primitive coal5 KB (840 words) - 18:24, 19 January 2017
- The hall was built as a cloth hall for handloom weavers to sell the woollen cloth "pieces" they had produced.<ref>{{NHLE|124 KB (644 words) - 12:34, 1 August 2017
- File:Weavers Cottages, Church Road, BB.JPG|Handloom weavers' cottages, Church Road12 KB (1,938 words) - 08:32, 21 September 2017
- ...en's playground. For the next 50 years, cotton cloth was woven in the many handloom weavers' cottages which can still be seen along the village's main road.5 KB (803 words) - 08:29, 18 May 2018
- Exhibits include a handloom and a spinning jenny, invented by James Hargreaves. In the loom chamber, sp4 KB (601 words) - 10:40, 25 May 2018
- ...er's coal mines, in agriculture and, until the arrival of cotton mills, in handloom weaving.3 KB (401 words) - 18:37, 4 April 2021