Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry

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