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An Act for permitting the exportation of wooll, and woollen or bay yarn, from any port in Ireland, to any port in Great Britain.
Great Britain.Date: 1753]- Books
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The case of Mr. Richard Arkwright and Co. In relation to Mr. Arkwright's invention of an engine for spinning cotton, &c. into yarn; ...
Richard Arkwright and Co.Date: 1782- Books
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Act of the councill of trade anent the right making and measuring of linen cloath, and discharging the exportation of lint and linen yarn &c.
Council of Trade (Scotland)Date: Anno Dom, 1706- Pictures
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A mother and daughter reviewing embroidery made by the daughter; a yarn-winder stands nearby. Engraving by F.B. Lépicié, 1740, after J.B.S. Chardin.
Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, 1699-1779.Date: 1740Reference: 29993i- Pictures
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A young woman sits on a mountain side with a cow and a basket on the ground, spinnning yarn. Engraving by P. Laurent after Karel du Jardin.
Dujardin, Karel, 1622-1678.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 29961i- Books
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Some considerations relating to the importation of snap and bay yarn from Ireland to Bristoll, &c. humbly offer'd to the Honble the House of Commons. By a person wholly indifferent, and no way concern'd either on one side or other.
Person Wholly Indifferent.Date: 1731?]- Books
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Advertisement anent illegal yarns and reels.
Great Britain. Commissioners and Trustees for Improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland.Date: 24 March 1761- Books
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An Act to prevent abuses in making linen-cloth, and regulating the lengths, breadths, and equal sorting of yarn, for each piece made in Scotland, and for whitening the same.
Great Britain.Date: 1712]- Books
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Proposals for preventing the infamous and clandestine exportation of our wool and woollen yarn from Great Britain and Ireland, and to pay the interest of twelve millions. By George Bonell, gent.
Bonell, George.Date: 1762?]- Books
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By the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, a proclamation, for preventing the illegal exportation of wool, worstead, bay or woollen yarn, woollen cloath, or other woollen manufactures of this kingdom.
Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1731-1737 : Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of Dorset)Date: 1731- Books
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A ready numberer; or, the cotton spinner's calculator: a table, Calculated to afford greater assistance, than any hitherto published, to Cotton Manufacturers, particularly those in The Spinning Branch. Shewing the number of hanks required on a set, of a bundle, to make the yarn any such number, from 11 hanks in one pound, up to 210. Exhibited upon a simple construction, as shall be fully explained hercaster. There is, on every page, to render this work still more serviceable, a narrow column, that shews the amount of the weight inserted on the same, under (and a little above) eight shillings and six pence per 1b. To which also is annexed, a wrapping table; OR, A Table computing the length of a whole set, by the length of one cop. Including nine different sizes of Jennies, and nineteen Mules, from 144 spindles, taking all regular sizes (i. e. 12 to be the common difference) up to 360. By Thomas Jones, Evan Evans, and John Thornton, Cotton Spinners.
Jones, Thomas, active 1798.Date: 1798- Books
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A compendious table, or, the cotton-manufacturer's useful assistant, in buying or selling all sorts of cotton-yarn; shewing, at one view, the length of one pound ... By Joseph Stopford. ...
Stopford, Joseph.Date: 1786- Books
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An Act for imploying the manufacturers, and incouraging the consumption of raw silk and mohair yarn, by prohibiting the wearing of buttons and button-holes made of cloth, serge, or other stuffs.
Great Britain.Date: 1721]- Books
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Some reasons humbly offered for establishing a yarn-market in the city of Dublin; and a view of certain advantages that would arise to the publick from erecting such a market near the Linnen-Hall.
Date: Printed in the Year [1736]- Books
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Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of the Honourable members of the House of Commons, against making any ports in the South Channel in England, free, for the importation of wooll and yarn from Ireland.
Date: 1731?]- Books
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The grasier's complaint and petition for redress: Or, The necessity of restraining Irish wool and yarn; and of raising and supporting the price of wool of the growth of Great-Britain, consider'd. By a Lincolnshire Grasier.
Lincolnshire Grasier.Date: 1726- Books
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An Act for making more effectual an Act made in the eighth year of the reign of the late Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for employing the manufacturers, by encouraging the consumption of raw silk and mohair yarn.
Great Britain.Date: 1718]- Pictures
Cattle drink at a pond attended by two women: one of the women washes a garment in the pond, the other spins yarn from a distaff to a spindle; sheep and a goat are present. Etching by J. de Visscher after N. Berchem.
Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683.Date: [between 1660 and 1669?]Reference: 2803349i- Books
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An Act for prohibiting the importation of raw silk and mohair yarn of the product or manufacture of Asia, from any ports or places in the streights or levant deas, except such ports and places as are within the dominions of the Grand Seignior.
Great Britain.Date: 1720]- Books
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Reasons humbly offer'd by the woollen-drapers, taylors, &c. for repealing an act made in the Eighth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, Entitled, An Act for employing the manufacturers, by encouraging the consumption of raw silk and mohair-yarn.
Date: 1718?]- Books
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An Act to explain and make more effectual an Act passed in the tenth year of Her Majesties reign, for preventing abuses in making linen cloth, and regulating the lengths and breadths, and equal sorting of yarn, in each piece made in Scotland, and for whitening the same.
Great Britain.Date: 1714]- Books
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The weavers index, or, The Weavers sure guide, being a ready help to them: by shewing at one view how much Warp may be had to any number of yards, out of any quantity of yarn proposed. To which is added a Feyling Table. By D. and J. Diston.
Diston, D.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Archives and manuscripts
'Threads & Yarns' event records
Date: 2011Reference: WT/D/3/9/3Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Audio
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Threads & yarns. Lillian Shillingford.
Date: 2011- Audio
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Threads & yarns. Christine Stammers.
Date: 2011