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- Macclesfield, and sold to ICI Fibres. ICI licensed the product to various throwsters. The largest producer was William Tatton of Leek, and the Golborne factory...4 KB (485 words) - 12:47, 15 August 2024
- silk weaver in 1775, George Courtauld first worked on his own as silk throwster. Between 1785 and 1794 he made a number of visits to America. In 1794...2 KB (188 words) - 19:33, 9 September 2023
- to the collector of excise but later ran the Derby Silk Mill as a silk throwster where silk thread was prepared for weaving. As a child or young person...6 KB (492 words) - 23:15, 18 June 2024
- was founded in 1794 in Pebmarsh in Essex. The business was originally "throwsters", that is producers of yarn, but later specialised in weaving as in silk...7 KB (986 words) - 12:05, 28 May 2024
- organzines and trams call the surplus "manufacturer's waste." A silk "throwster" receives the silk in skein form, the thread of which consists of a number...4 KB (655 words) - 23:05, 14 November 2022
- the lease of Sherborne House was taken over by Robert Willmott, a silk throwster. Subsequent tenants were Major Andrew Cathcart Bogle VC of the 23rd Foot...8 KB (844 words) - 19:42, 11 July 2024
- only four survived, and their son George, apprenticed in 1761 to a silk throwster, began the link to the textile company Courtaulds. They ran a successful...9 KB (802 words) - 20:19, 9 May 2024
- refer to the whole process: reeling, throwing and doubling, and silk throwsters would speak of throwing as twisting or spinning. Silk throwing was originally...26 KB (3,617 words) - 00:59, 3 March 2024
- known as Strype Street in Petticoat Lane, he was a merchant and silk throwster. The younger John was educated at St Paul's School, and on 5 July 1662...8 KB (933 words) - 12:44, 11 July 2023
- Society of Silk Pickers 1884 202 Amalgamated Society of Silk Spinners, Throwsters and Reelers 1907 160 Amalgamated Society of Women Workers 1906 4,800 Association...6 KB (474 words) - 02:53, 17 February 2022
- director of Courtaulds Ltd at Coventry in Warwickshire, the son of a silk throwster at Macclesfield. He was "one of the builders and guiding figures of the...20 KB (2,302 words) - 03:49, 14 March 2023
- Grade II listed building Built for Charles Brook (Brook and Nephews, silk throwsters, Bentlee Mills) (A) Brigg Mill Meltham, SE 1013 1090 53°35′40″N 1°50′54″W...66 KB (1,341 words) - 03:41, 8 January 2024
- Street, Beith with his wife Mary, a flax throwster, aged 50 and a daughter Elizabeth, aged six. A flax throwster was a textile worker on a machine which...9 KB (1,168 words) - 20:34, 5 June 2024
- the youngest child of James Maze (d. 1794), a prosperous Huguenot silk throwster and merchant. She was bilingual in English and French and said to be very...5 KB (459 words) - 00:51, 24 November 2023
- to house power looms. During this period Birchenough also had a silk throwster business in partnership with Joseph Arnold, which they carried out at...9 KB (1,272 words) - 23:41, 28 September 2023
- spinning early in the 19th century; George Reade and Son, silk men and silk throwsters, are recorded in Pigot's Directory of 1822. By 1833, the Company's business...65 KB (600 words) - 23:56, 25 April 2024
- authors, and we are told that 'being adopted by an uncle who was a silk throwster in Spital Fields, he succeeded him in his business; but wanting the prudence...3 KB (465 words) - 02:06, 9 August 2024
- refer to the whole process: reeling, throwing and doubling, and silk throwsters would speak of throwing as twisting or spinning. Silk throwing was originally...9 KB (1,095 words) - 08:04, 7 October 2023
- refer to the whole process: reeling, throwing and doubling, and silk throwsters would speak of throwing as twisting or spinning. Silk throwing was originally...34 KB (4,612 words) - 02:24, 27 August 2024
- and doubling. In 1700, Italians were the most technologically advanced throwsters in Europe and had developed two machines capable of winding the silk onto...18 KB (2,202 words) - 00:41, 31 May 2024
- Middle English throwesters pl; equivalent to throw + -ster. throwster (plural throwsters) (obsolete) One who twists or spins silk to prepare it for weaving
- þraēd, literally, that which is twisted, þrawan, to twist, to throw, cf. “throwster,” a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread