- silk
weaver in 1775,
George Courtauld first worked on his own as silk
throwster.
Between 1785 and 1794 he made a
number of
visits to America. In 1794...
- Macclesfield, and sold to ICI Fibres. ICI
licensed the
product to
various throwsters. The
largest producer was
William Tatton of L****, and the
Golbourne factory...
-
refer to the
whole process: reeling,
throwing and doubling, and silk
throwsters would speak of
throwing as
twisting or spinning. Silk
throwing was originally...
- Street,
Beith with his wife Mary, a flax
throwster, aged 50 and a
daughter Elizabeth, aged six. A flax
throwster was a
textile worker on a
machine which...
-
organzines and
trams call the
surplus "manufacturer's waste." A silk "
throwster"
receives the silk in
skein form, the
thread of
which consists of a number...
- to the
collector of
excise but
later ran the
Derby Silk Mill as a silk
throwster where silk
thread was
prepared for weaving. As a
child or
young person...
-
director of
Courtaulds Ltd at
Coventry in Warwickshire, the son of a silk
throwster at Macclesfield. He was "one of the
builders and
guiding figures of the...
- authors, and we are told that 'being
adopted by an
uncle who was a silk
throwster in
Spital Fields, he
succeeded him in his business; but
wanting the prudence...
- only four survived, and
their son George,
apprenticed in 1761 to a silk
throwster,
began the link to the
textile company Courtaulds. They ran a successful...
-
Society of Silk
Pickers 1884 202
Amalgamated Society of Silk Spinners,
Throwsters and
Reelers 1907 160
Amalgamated Society of
Women Workers 1906 4,800 ****ociation...
