"Woollen Manufactures" from Industries of Scotland
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A chapter on woollen manufactures from David Bremner's The Industries of Scotland (1869). It traces the Scottish woollen trade from medieval and early modern attempts to set up manufactories, through the 18th-century state of the trade, to the 19th-century tweed industry. It describes the manufacturing processes (carding, spinning, dyeing, weaving, fulling, finishing), hosiery and stocking-frame knitting, and carpet making (Brussels, Wilton, Turkey-style, tapestry). The closing sections survey the chief woollen towns, including Galashiels, Hawick, Selkirk, Jedburgh, Langholm, Kilmarnock, Tillicoultry, Aberdeen and Inverness, with statistics on mills, looms, employment and output.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1869
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 70
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