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    250 woman's work in the woeld's clothing...

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    g t o f ive the execu greater city tion , in effect w and hose to no this behal t only app f i clo t eal thed to made popular both , had the feeling criminal assembled * , the and weavers before the

    hin , ts made of this detested cottonbut had even angman arrayed the garmen very gallows in drapery of the same obnoxious ,

    material as miht . Such ex efforts ected of ignorance little effec and t wi pre th judice regard to however bringing ,

    the new g fabric p into disrepu , very te , and by 1739 we find an article in the u DailAdvertiser" lluding to the manufacture of

    y a wi cott th in mixed these twen p t lain , having s that arrived we not at so l grea make t perfection h y enoug

    for our own consumption y year , but supply our colonies and many of the nations of Europe" Here was work indeed for feminine

    . had fingers still , while to receive the clo from thing th f or such its primal vastly prepara increased tion number , and in s

    f t he t w so omen large could now was no lon the er demand keep for ace yarn with tha the t t l ooms wheels of th e f

    menas it took at least three g of the p former to supply one of the latter , It was rarelindeed that the weaver ' s own family

    could . make sufficient y yarn to keep him employed ; he had to lto his female neihboursthen to extend his researches

    y d app rawback et fur y ther on afield a man , and ' s indus g it mus try t , to have have been to w alk eed three a grievous or four

    miles and call on _Rve or six spinners ere he could collect enough material fte to n t afford o remain him occupation uite idle t for hroug the h rest not of being the day able , and to

    procure even o warp and weft q wherewith to work . One good effect however resultedin the hiher estimation in which the worker

    , g her could work not bu and t be the held inner by th in add w iti ho on were to a so dep reat endan rise t in up on

    regular wages , , which sp we find , amounted in 1737 g to sixpence a dayinstead of twopenceas had been the case but a few s

    , , year before to quicken , often her recei exertions ved presents when or they gratuities required from from the her weavers extra ,

    sure effort too . And that better fair sj ) far eech than and g respectful ift of cap treatm or kerchief ent were , we secure may be d

    a each to factory Factories her cottage when on a rival in or smal a mills looms manufacturing l scal were e were the as thus father yet district competing still of a few being famil and for mostl assisted her far y yarn between in by . itself his ,

    sonsusually presiding at , the loom , and his wife y and daughters was spinning required , as much had to as be they obtained could to from supp the ly it . femal What e m more embers yarn of

    in other some peasant different households pursuit , whose , and mal was e rel either ations fetched were occup by the ied

    weavers chapmen themselves , who went when with their pack need -horses was urgent from , door or by to travelling door to

    250 Woman's Work In The Woeld's Clothing...

    250 woman ' s work in the _woeld _' s clothing .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/34/