This collection brings together primary sources on the British textile industry across the long nineteenth-century, a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary. This set provides an extensive range of resources on the calico printing industry, textile warehousing and shipping, and textile waste and recycling.
This collection brings together primary sources on the British textile industry across the long nineteenth-century, a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary. This set provides an extensive range of resources on the calico printing industry, textile warehousing and shipping, and textile waste and recycling.
VOLUME I THE WASTE TEXTILE INDUSTRIES
Volume I: List of images
Volume I: Timeline
Volume I: References
Acknowledgements
Notes about transcription
Introduction to Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry
Introduction to Volume I: The Waste Textile Industries
PART 1: 'A credit to the age': the utilisation of waste
1 'On the Utilization of Waste Substances' and 'On the Useful Application of Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances'
SIMMONDS, PETER LUND
2 'Utilisation of Waste Products'
LEATHER, C. W.
PART 2: Hard labour: tow and oakum
3 'House of Correction, Coldbath Fields: Oakum Picking', 'Of the Interior of Tothill Fields Prison', and 'The Female Work and Work-Rooms at Tothill Fields Prison'
MAYHEW, HENRY
4 'The Manufacture of Oakum. A Little-known Branch of the Textile Industry'
PICKWORTH, CHARLES NEWTON (ED.)
5 'Carding' and 'Tow Preparing'
MARSHALL AND CO., LEEDS
6 'Tow Carding' and 'Tow Preparing'
SHARP, PETER
PART 3: The 'low wools': shoddy and mungo
7 'Dewsbury'
HEAD, GEORGE, SIR
8 'Woollen Shoddy. Its Invention, History, and Manufacture'
FENTON, FARRAR
9 'Wool Substitutes' and 'Mungo and Shoddy'
BEAUMONT, ROBERTS
10 Waste Merchants from The Century's Progress
BERCRY, WILLIAM A. AND ELLIS, GRANVILLE A. (EDS.)
11 Old-Time Traders and Their Ways
COOK, ALEXANDER S.
12 'Pulled Wool or Shoddy'
PRIESTMAN, HOWARD
PART 4: The waste of one is the raw material of the next: cotton waste
13 'About Cotton Waste. Specially Contributed' and 'The Disposal of Shoddy Dirt: A Boon to Cotton Waste Willowers'
14 'Famous Bolton Cotton Fabrics'
CRANKSHAW, W. P.
15 'The Shoddy Exchange, Manchester' and 'Cotton Waste Dealers' Exchange'
NODAL, JOHN JOWARD (ED.) AND HITCHMAN, JAMES F. (ED.)
16 The Cotton Waste Dealers' Directory, Deing a Complete List of Waste Dealers
SOWERBUTTS, ELI.
17 Manchester of To-day. An Epitome of Results. Business Men and Commercial Interests. Wealth and Growth. Historical, Statistical, Biographical
EDWARDS, RICHARD AND BERCRY, WILLIAM A. (EDS.)
18 'Waste Spinning'
NASMITH, JOSEPH
19 'The Preparation and Spinning of Barchant or Waste Yarns'
MARSDEN, RICHARD. (ED.)
20 'Waste and Waste Spinning' and 'The Use of Cotton-Waste Yarns in Weaving'
THORNLEY, THOMAS
21 'Examples of Trading'
HEYLIN, HENRY BROUGHAM
22 'The Utilization of Soft Cotton Waste'
NASMITH, FRANK
23 'Waste and Production, Cost and Organisation in the Doubling Mill'
WAKEFIELD, SAM
24 U. S. Dept of Commerce: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Foreign Markets for Cotton Linters, Batting, and Waste
25 Cotton Waste: A study of a Great Lancashire Industry
WILLIAM C. JONES LTD
PART 5: An 'uninviting aggregation of rubbish': spun silk
26 'Waste Not, Want Not'
CLAXTON, WILLIAM J.
27 'Fortunes Made in Business. XXII. Mr. S. C. Lister'
BURNLEY, JAMES
28 'The Silk Comb'
LISTER, SAMUEL CUNLIFFE
29 'The Spun Silk Industry of England'
BODEN, JOSEPH
30 'Silk Spinning, Silk Wastes, and Waste Products'
RAYNER, HOLLINS, AKA FILSOIE (PSEUD.)
PART 6: 'Complete metamorphosis of the rag': rag flock
31 'Manufacture of Rag Flock and The Dissemination of Disease' and 'On the Manufacture of Rag Flock in Reference to the Possible Dissemination of Infectious Disease by this and Other Products of Woollen Rags'
PARSONS, HENRY FRANKLIN
32 'What the People Sleep Upon'
FYFE, PETER
33 'Upholsterers' Materials'
HASLUCK, PAUL N.
34 Articles on 'Loathsome Bed Stuffing', From The Lancet
WAKLEY, THOMAS (ED.)
35 'The Inside of a Mattress'
LUDLAM, ALBERT J. (ATTRIB.)
PART 7: Dolly shops and 'things done with'
36 'Lint'
SMITH, CHARLES MANBY
37 'Revelations About Sacks'
SMITH, CHARLES MANBY
38 'Old Clothes and What Becomes of Them'
WYNTER, ANDREW
39 'Things That are Done With'
MATEAUX, CLARA L.
Index