- 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
Golborne factory...
- and have
since ceased to
exist include the following:
Combmakers Silk
Throwsters Silkmen Pinmakers Soap
Makers Hatband Makers Long
Bowstring Makers The...
- the
youngest child of
James Maze (d. 1794), a
prosperous Huguenot silk
throwster and merchant. She was
bilingual in
English and
French and said to be very...
-
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...
-
known as
Strype Street in
Petticoat Lane, he was a
merchant and silk
throwster. The
younger John was
educated at St Paul's School, and on 5 July 1662...
-
refer to the
whole process: reeling,
throwing and doubling, and silk
throwsters would speak of
throwing as
twisting or spinning. Silk
throwing was originally...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
