Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry

Dr Philip A. Sykas, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

• VOLUME I THE WASTE TEXTILE INDUSTRIESVolume I: List of images Volume I: Timeline Volume I: References AcknowledgementsNotes 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 LUND2 ‘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, HENRY4 ‘The Manufacture of Oakum. A Little-known Branch of the Textile Industry’ PICKWORTH, CHARLES NEWTON (ED.)5 ‘Carding’ and ‘Tow Preparing’ MARSHALL AND CO., LEEDS6 ‘Tow Carding’ and ‘Tow Preparing’ SHARP, PETERPART 3: The ‘low wools’: shoddy and mungo 7 ‘Dewsbury’ HEAD, GEORGE, SIR8 ‘Woollen Shoddy. Its Invention, History, and Manufacture’ FENTON, FARRAR9 ‘Wool Substitutes’ and ‘Mungo and Shoddy’ BEAUMONT, ROBERTS10 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, HOWARDPART 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, JOSEPH19 ‘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, THOMAS21 ‘Examples of Trading’ HEYLIN, HENRY BROUGHAM22 ‘The Utilization of Soft Cotton Waste’ NASMITH, FRANK23 ‘Waste and Production, Cost and Organisation in the Doubling Mill’ WAKEFIELD, SAM24 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 LTDPART 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, JAMES28 ‘The Silk Comb’ LISTER, SAMUEL CUNLIFFE29 ‘The Spun Silk Industry of England’ BODEN, JOSEPH30 ‘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 FRANKLIN32 ‘What the People Sleep Upon’ FYFE, PETER33 ‘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 MANBY37 ‘Revelations About Sacks’ SMITH, CHARLES MANBY38 ‘Old Clothes and What Becomes of Them’ WYNTER, ANDREW39 ‘Things That are Done With’ MATÉAUX, CLARA L.Index