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An essay on truth. Addressed to Veracity Jack, the Yarn-Factor.
Veritas.Date: 1784]- Books
75 years between the peachtrees : a history of Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital of Emory University / Lois Clendenen with Nancy Yarn.
Clendenen, Lois, 1915-Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
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Some reasons humbly offered, for supporting and continuing the Dublin market for linen-yarn, as it is now settled and established in the Yarn-Hall, lately erected near the Linen-Hall.
Date: Printed in the year MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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Reasons humbly offered by the taylors, Button-Sellers, Button-Makers, Throwsters, Twisters, Dyers, Spinners and Winders, &c. for explaining and amending an Act made the Eighth of Her late Majesty, Entituled, An Act for Employing the Manufacturers, by Encouraging the Consumption of Raw-Silk and Mohair-Yarn.
Date: 1718]- Books
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The weaver and housewife's pocket-book; containing rules for the right making of linen cloth. Wherein is shown, What should be the Weight of each Hank of Yarn, that is fit for any Hundred of the Reed; and likewise, the Number of right telled Yarn, in Spinels, Slips, and Cuts, that will be sufficient to make any Number of Ells, from 1 to 60, in a 6 to a 25 Hundred inclusive. With Several useful tables of Dutch weight, and the Measure of the Dutch Reeds on the Scots Ell. To which is subjoined, a distinct receipt for boiling of yarn after the Dutch method, All necessary for the Improvement of the Linen Trade. By David Ramsay Weaver in Dalkeith. Entred in Stationers Hall.
Ramsay, David, weaver in Dalkeith.Date: MDCCL [1750]- Books
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An abstract of several clauses in an act of Parliament passed in the twelfth year of King George the Second, intituled, An act for taking off the duties upon woollen and bay yarn imported from Ireland to England, and for the more effectual preventing the Exportation of Wooll from Great Britain, and of Wooll, and Wooll manufactured, from Ireland to foreign Parts, so far as the same relate to the Exportation of Wooll, Woollen or Bay Yarn, Wooll-Sells, Shortings, Mortlings, Wooll-Flocks, Worsted Yarn, from Great Britain to foreign Parts, and of the said Goods, as also Cloth, Serge, Bays, Kerseys, Says, Frizes, Druggets, Cloth-Serges, Shalloons, Stuffs, and other Draperies, and Woollen Manufactures, or mixed with Wooll, or Wooll-Flocks, from Ireland, to foreign Parts (except certain Ports in England.),
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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An act for amending an act, intituled, An act for encouragement of tillage, and better employment of the poor; and also, for the more effectual putting in execution, An act, intituled, An act to encourage the draining and improving of boggs and unprofitable low grounds, and for Easing and Dispatching the Inland Carriage, and Conveyance of Goods from one Part to another in this Kingdom; And also, For laying several Duties upon Coaches, Berlins, Chariots, Calashes, Chaises and Chairs, and upon Cards and Dice, and upon Wrought and Manufactured Gold and Silver Plate, Imported into, or Made in Ireland, for the Purposes therein Mentioned; And also, for Repealing the Duties Payable upon the Exportation of Wooll, Bay-Yarn and Woollen-Yarn, out of this Kingdom for England.
Ireland.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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An act for the more effectual preventing of frauds and abuses committed by persons employed in the manufacture of hats, and in the fustian, cotton, iron, furr, woollen, mohair, and silk manufactures of this kingdom; and for Continuing and Amending an Act made in the Seventh Year of His Present Majesty's Reign, Intitled, An Act to Prevent Frauds and Abuses in Bay-Yarn Exported to Great Britain.
Ireland.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Mathematical sleaing tables: or, the great and only mystery of weaving linen cloth explained. By which the most ignorant Weaver is infallibly directed how to adjust the Reed to the Yarn: And The Buyer truly shewn whether the Cloth be wrought to its due Perfection. Taken from Geometrical Proportions, and fitted to the meanest Capacity. Published by the special order of the Honourable the House of Commons, and by order of the Honourable trustees for the improvement of the linen manufacture in this kingdom. By Joseph Beaumont, Merchant.
Beaumont, Joseph.Date: 1754- Books
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For the benefit of all people that keep cattle: being approved of by all those that have ever experienc'd or seen it, to be the cheapest and most lasting Thing of the Kind that ever yet was made; a new-invented toil, four Foot and a half high, for folding of sheep, or parting of any piece of land, much cheaper than Waddle Gates or Hurdles, more durable, and is strong enough for keeping in either Horses or Bullocks, made in quite a different Manner, and of a more durable Cordage than ever yet was made; being a very small Mash, bare three Inches and a half square, so small that neither Sheep nor Lamb can get their Head through, nor Fox creep through it; and so light, that a Man may with ease carry on his Back twenty Rods in length of it. Also all sorts of hop-bagging, sacks and sacking, Home-Made Sheeting Cloth, Ditto Hair Cloth, And Ash Cloths, Rough Hemp, Flax, Tippilings, and Towe, Fine drest Hemp and Flax for Shoe-Makers, And all sorts of Cloth, All sorts of Ropes, Rope Yarn, And Spun Yarn for Thatching, Plow Traces, Halters, Halter Reins, Foddering Lines, Hair Lines, Towing Lines, Packing Lines, Marline, Cloth Lines, Jack Lines, Clock Lines, Wall Lines, Garden Lines, and Fishing Lines, Whip-Cord of all sorts, Bed Cords, Would Cord, Box Cord, Sash Cord, Pack Thred, Shop Thred, Hair Thread, Coller-Makers Thred, Sealing Thred, Hemp and Flax Thred, Bedlam Twine, Fly Nets for Horses, And every sort of Netting Twine. Wholesale or Retail, as cheap as in London, by the maker, John Flaxman, in Stone-Street, Maidstone, in Kent. Note, He likewise sells Russia Yarn, Spinnell, Machine, Black Balls, Cat Gut, and Fish Hooks of all sorts; and gives Ready Money for any Quantity of Cow Tails or Horse Hair.
Flaxman, John.Date: [1760?]- 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]- Pictures
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Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving c.1861.
Reference: 46072i- Ephemera
An unpacific yarn ... : Pears' soap.
Pears (A. & F.) Limited.Date: [between 1880 and 1889?]- Books
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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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Answers for Thomas Wilson inspector of yarn, appointed by the trustees for improving manufactures in Scotland, to the petition of Patrick Somervile flax-dresser in Leith.
Wilson, Thomas, inspector of yarn.Date: 1767]- Pictures
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Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.
Reference: 46071i- Books
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Observations upon a paper, intituled, General reasons against lowering the duties upon foreign yarn.
Date: 1753?]- Pictures
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A Chinese lady at winding up a yarn. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 581460i- Books
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Reasons to prove the necessity of the duty's being taken off Irish yarn imported to England; and securing wool and yarn from foreigners. Humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament, by the traders in the woollen manufactures.
Date: 1739]- Books
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An Act for employing the manufacturers by encouraging the consumption of raw silk and mohair yarn.
Great Britain.Date: 1710]- Pictures
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Africa: a man wearing a hat and large metal and yarn necklace. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.
Lubinski, Kurt, 1899-1969.Date: 1940-1960Reference: 580985i- Books
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An Act to open the port of Lancaster for the importation of wooll and woollen yarn from Ireland.
Great Britain.Date: 1752]- Books
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An Act to permit the importation of cotton-yarn, the manufacture of Ireland, into this kingdom duty-free.
Great Britain.Date: 1778- Books
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Reasons offered by the manufacturers of combing and spinning in England, against taking the duty off Irish yarn imported.
Date: 1731?]