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.
Author(s): Philip A. Sykas
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 455
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
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’
2 ‘Utilisation of Waste Products’
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’
4 ‘The Manufacture of Oakum. A Little-known Branch of the Textile Industry’
5 ‘Carding’ and ‘Tow Preparing’
6 ‘Tow Carding’ and ‘Tow Preparing’
Part 3 The ‘low wools’: shoddy and mungo
7 ‘Dewsbury’
8 ‘Woollen Shoddy. Its Invention, History, and Manufacture’
9 ‘Wool Substitutes’ and ‘Mungo and Shoddy’
10 Waste Merchants from The Century’s Progress: Yorkshire
11 Old-Time Traders and Their Ways
12 ‘“Pulled” Wool or Shoddy’
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’
15 ‘The Shoddy Exchange, Manchester’ and ‘Cotton Waste Dealers’ Exchange’
16 The Cotton Waste Dealers’ Directory, Being a Complete List of Waste Dealers
17 Waste Manufacturers and Merchants from Manchester of To-day
18 ‘Waste Spinning’
19 ‘The Preparation and Spinning of Barchant or Waste Yarns’
20 ‘Waste and Waste Spinning’ and ‘The Use of Cotton-Waste Yarns in Weaving’
21 ‘Examples of Trading’
22 ‘The Utilization of Soft Cotton Waste’
23 ‘Waste and Production, Cost and Organisation in the Doubling Mill’
24 Foreign Markets for Cotton Linters, Batting, and Waste
25 Cotton Waste: A Study of a Great Lancashire Industry
Part 5 An ‘uninviting aggregation of rubbish’: spun silk
26 ‘Waste Not, Want Not’
27 ‘Fortunes Made in Business. XXII. Mr. S. C. Lister’
28 ‘The Silk Comb’
29 ‘The Spun Silk Industry of England’
30 ‘Silk Spinning, Silk Wastes, and Waste Products’
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’
32 ‘What the People Sleep Upon’
33 ‘Upholsterers’ Materials’
34 Articles on ‘Loathsome Bed “Stuffing”’, From The Lancet
35 ‘The Inside of a Mattress’
Part 7 Dolly shops and ‘things done with’
36 ‘Lint’
37 ‘Revelations About Sacks’
38 ‘Old Clothes and What Becomes of Them’
39 ‘Things That are Done With’
Index
