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In a Spitalfields silk weaver's shop two contrasting apprentices, Tom Idle, asleep, and Francis Goodchild, engrossed in his work, sit at their looms overseen by their master. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1749.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1 July 1795Reference: 38360iPart of: Industry and idleness- Books
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A scheme to settle and establish the silk weaving trade on a solid foundation. And for the better employing the poor of this kingdom. Consisting of two parts, vis. I. To hinder effectually the Running and Smuggling of all foreign Wrought Silks, &c. II. To hinder the Debasing and Adulterating of our Manufactures for common Use and Wear; not by any outward Compulsion or Force, but by making it The Interest of every Manufacturer to fabricate good and durable Commodities; and to make it the Interest of every Particular Weaver to outdo each other in Perfection; and to secure to each Manufacturer the Credit and Reputation that will accrue to him from his Industry and Labour. Offer'd to the consideration of the judicious and rational broad silk weavers. By Claudius Rey, weaver.
Rey, Claudius.Date: [1728]- Digital Images
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Cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV) or Cypovirus, is from the Rheoviridae family. It has a double stranded RNA genome and a very stable capsid. It infects insects, including silkworms, and can have an economic impact on the silk industry.
Jonathan Grimes, University of Oxford- Books
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Reasons humbly offered by the Company of Silk-Throwers of the City of London, in behalf of themselves and others, carrying on the said trade.
Silk Throwers Company (London, England)Date: 1726]- Books
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Thoughts on trade: intended to have been first publish'd in Ireland, with an account of the present state of the silken manufacturers, and the calamitous circumstances of a numerous poor in that Kingdom. ...
Lloyd, Edward, silk thrower.Date: 1736- Books
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Considerations on the silk trade of Ireland. With useful hints for the extension thereof, addressed to the Dublin Society.
Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Recherches expérimentales sur l'application extérieure de al vapeur pour échauffer l'eau dans la filature de la soie / Par le Chevalier Aldini. Traduiit de l'italien sur la seconde édition, et augmentée.
Aldini, Giovanni, 1762-1834.Date: 1819- Pictures
Bursa, Turkey: the silk exchange. Lithograph by J.F. Lewis, 1838, after Coke Smythe.
Smyth, Coke, 1808-1882.Date: [1838]Reference: 2150207i- Books
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A brief state of the case relating to the machine erected at Derby for making Italian Organzine silk, which was discover'd and brought into England, with the utmost difficulty and hazard, and at the sole expence of Sir Thomas Lombe.
Lombe, Thomas, Sir, 1685-1739.Date: 1732?]- Books
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An address to the representatives of the people, upon subjects of moment, to the well-being and happiness of the Kingdom of Ireland. By a friend to the nation.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]- Books
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Art de la teinture en soie / Par M. Macquer.
Macquer, Pierre Joseph, 1718-1784.Date: [1763]- Books
Arte de la tintura de sedas / escrito en Frances por Mr. Macquer....y traducido al castellano de Orden de la Real Junta General de Comercio, Moneda y Minas. Por Don Miguel Geronymo Suarez y Nuñez.
Macquer, Pierre Joseph, 1718-1784.Date: 1771- Books
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The feminine monarchy; or the history of bees; shewing their admirable nature and property, their Generation and Colony, their Government, Loyalty, Art, Industry, Enemies, Wars, Magnanimity, &c. Together, with the right ordering of them from time to time, and the sweet Profit arising thereof. Written in Latin by Charles Butler, and now translated into English by W. S. To which is added some observations of silk worms, and how to manage and keep them to Advantage, never before made publick.
Butler, Charles, -1647.Date: 1704- Books
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Extracts of letters from Livorno, dated the 13th of March, 1715-16, from Mess. How Gould and Gott, Factors there to a Merchant in London, relating to Turkey Raw Silk.
How, Gould and Gott.Date: 1716?]- Books
Gossamer days : spiders, humans and their threads / Eleanor Morgan.
Morgan, EleanorDate: 2016- Books
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Some reasons humbly offer'd to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament; shewing, the necessity for making a law ... to oblige all foreign plain black silks to be imported at ... London, to be there seal'd and mark'd, ...
Date: 1713?]- Books
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Reasons for a further duty on Italian thrown silks imported from Italy.
Date: 1711?]- Books
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Thoughts on the times, and the silk manufacture; shewing its utility, and the great loss that is occasioned by the importation of French and Italian wrought silks. With the cause of the weavers dissatisfaction. And A Remedy against any future Apprehensions of a Disturbance of the public Peace by their Discontent. Dedicated to the Most Honourable The Marquis of Rockingham.
Citizen.Date: 1765- Books
An analysis of the individual differences in the output of silk-weavers / [by P.M. Elton].
Elton, P. M.Date: 1922- Books
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The produce of India, Italy, and France, raised in England, by the silk manufactures.
Apletre, John.Date: Printed in the Year 1720- Pictures
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A silk dyeing factory with smoking chimneys; advertising John Pullar & Son, silk dyer and scourer at Perth, Scotland. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.
Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859.Reference: 30857i- Books
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Reports of the Committee of Warehouses of the East-India Company, relative to extending the trade [o]n Bengal Raw-Silk.
East India Company. Committee of Warehouses.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
Crossroads of cuisine : the Eurasian heartland, the silk roads and food / by Paul D. Buell, E.N. Anderson, Montserrat de Pablo Moya, Moldir Oskenbay.
Buell, Paul D.Date: [2020]- Books
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The wages and prices of work, of the journeymen weavers, in that branch of the silk and silk mixed manufacture, called the plain velvet branch, as settled and regulated by the magistrates, At their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held for the City of London, the County of Middlesex, and the Liberty of the Tower of London, in August 1795. And Advertised Pursuant to the Acts of Parliament passed in the Thirteenth and Thirty-Second Years of the Reign of King George the Third. Entered at Stationers Hall.
Corporation of London. Quarter Sessions.Date: [1796]- Books
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Anno Undecimo Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XLIX. An act to continue for a further time, an act passed in the sixth year of His Present Majesty's reign, intituled, An act to prohibit the importation of foreign-wrought silks and velvets for a limited time; and for preventing unlawful combinations of workmen employed in the silk manufacture.
Great Britain.Date: 1771