Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry

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.

Dr Philip A. Sykas, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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' MATÉAUX, CLARA L. Index