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• Saltcoats
  .../ref> Other early industries in the town included coal mining, fishing and handloom weaving.<ref name="mcsherry3"/>
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• Blackburn
  ...e portion of the workforce in outlying rural areas. Nevertheless, the last handloom shop in Blackburn closed in 1894.<ref>Beattie (1992), pp.&nbsp;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 [[Oswaldtwist
  30 KB (4,592 words) - 13:34, 27 January 2016
• Kilsyth
  .... 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
• Littleborough, Lancashire
  ...astructure encouraged industrialists to modify Littleborough's traditional handloom cloth workshops with a mechanised form of textile production. Attracted to
  6 KB (877 words) - 10:10, 8 June 2018
• Leigh, Lancashire
  ...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 weavin
  30 KB (4,552 words) - 08:23, 19 September 2019
• Lurgan
  ...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 than
  27 KB (4,306 words) - 17:54, 29 January 2016
• Weaver's Cottage, Kilbarchan
  ...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 paisl
  1 KB (202 words) - 13:07, 6 March 2013
• Kilbarchan
  ...Scotland]], which keeps weaving in operation, and where guides demonstrate handloom weaving to visitors.
  3 KB (419 words) - 13:08, 6 March 2013
• Newmilns
  ...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 1877
  28 KB (4,419 words) - 20:25, 29 January 2021
• Auchterarder
  ...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
• Clare, Suffolk
  ...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, aged
  21 KB (3,534 words) - 22:35, 30 April 2018
• Arbirlot
  In the 18th and 19th centuries Arbirlot was principally occupied by handloom weavers and farmers, Arbirlot once had a meal mill, a slaughterhouse, two s
  3 KB (530 words) - 22:27, 11 September 2014
• Bredbury
  ...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
• Gatley
  ...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 Dir
  16 KB (2,603 words) - 13:37, 27 January 2016
• Kirkpatrick Durham
  ...[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 ch
  1 KB (172 words) - 17:52, 23 October 2015
• Eaglesham
  ...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 powered
  17 KB (2,648 words) - 21:04, 12 June 2015
• Neilston
  ...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 e
  20 KB (3,070 words) - 18:20, 26 January 2019
• Middlebie
  ...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. Tradesm
  3 KB (405 words) - 09:47, 25 October 2015
• Crossford, Fife
  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 follows
  8 KB (1,352 words) - 17:03, 27 January 2016
• Astley, Lancashire
  ...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 l
  22 KB (3,330 words) - 22:41, 26 December 2016