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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

refer to the whole process: reeling, throwing and doubling, and silk throwsters would speak of throwing as twisting or spinning. Silk throwing was originally...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

to house power looms. During this period Birchenough also had a silk throwster business in partnership with Joseph Arnold, which they carried out at...

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...

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...

refer to the whole process: reeling, throwing and doubling, and silk throwsters would speak of throwing as twisting or spinning. Silk throwing was originally...

refer to the whole process: reeling, throwing and doubling, and silk throwsters would speak of throwing as twisting or spinning. Silk throwing was originally...

and doubling. In 1700, Italians were the most technologically advanced throwsters in Europe and had developed two machines capable of winding the silk onto...