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Reasons humbly offer'd against laying a further duty on yarn imported from Ireland.
Date: 1711?]- Books
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The weaver's index. Or, A table shewing how much yarn it will take to warp and web. To which is subjoined, some caaming tables, and a table shewing when a spynle of yarn is so much English weight, how much yarn a pound either English or Scots is. Together with, the art of weaving, by the sliding rule.
Diston, D.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The weaver's index: Or, A table shewing how much yarn it will take to warp and web. To which is subjoined, some caaming tables, and a table, shewing when a spynle of yarn is so much English weight, how much yarn a pound either English or Scots is.
Gardner, Matthew, weaver.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- 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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The weaver's pocket-companion: containing, twenty-two caaming (or sleying) tables; each for a different kind of work. And seventeen warping tables, shewing by inspection, how many porters and splits--- also how many hears, cutts and threads, are required to an ell of any breadth, from half-ell to six-quarters, and for any reed, from a three hundred and three porter, to a twenty hundred. Likewise a copious table, shewing how many ells of any kind from a three hundred and three porter, (advancing porter by porter) to a twenty hundred, may be made out of any quantity of yarn. With several other necessary articles belonging to the weaver trade. The whole being so clearly explained both by precepts and examples, that any person who understands the practical part of weaving, may easily acquire an accurate knowledge of manufacturing. By J. Wotherspoon and W. Stevenson, weavers in Glasgow.
Wotherspoon, J.Date: M DCC LXXIX. [1779]