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Mary | Report | 25 Mar 2007 12:02 |
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I am probably being very dim but cant work out what a P.L. weaver is, its driving me mad! |
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Unknown | Report | 25 Mar 2007 12:09 |
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Hello Mary It is Power Loom Weaver. |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 25 Mar 2007 12:09 |
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I think it ia a Power Loom Weaver Roy |
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Unknown | Report | 25 Mar 2007 12:12 |
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In 1802 William Horrocks, a Stockport cotton manufacturer, patented an improved power-loom. It featured a more effective way of winding the woven cloth onto a beam at the back of the loom. Over the next twenty years further improvements took place and by 1823 Richard Guest was able to claim that 'a boy or girl aged fourteen or fifteen could manage two power-looms and could produce three and a half times as much as the best handloom weaver'. By 1850 there were 250,000 cotton power-looms in Britain, of which nearly 177,000 were in Lancashire. |
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Catherine | Report | 25 Mar 2007 12:15 |
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Could be Power Loom Weaver ? On genuki there is a bit of info about weavers, and was a mention of a power loom. Regards, Cath x |
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Mary | Report | 25 Mar 2007 12:19 |
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Thanks knew it would be me being extremely dim ive got some others in my tree but written in full having a blonde day! |
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