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The Weaving Guild of Vyšší Brod
The history of the weavers guild of the Czech town of Vyšší Brod, founded by Vilém of Rožmberk in 1568 and organized linen weavers under the auspices of the local abbot.
http://www.ckrumlov.info/docs/en/region_histor_tkcech.xml
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Verdant Works
The history of the jute industry in Dundee, Scotland, from 1833 when the first jute textile mill was built by merchant and flax spinner David Lindsay, until the industry's decline in the 1960's.
http://www.rrsdiscovery.com/index.php?pageID=63
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Silk Mills Of Congleton
The history of the silk weaving industry of Congleton, United Kingdom, which developed from the founding of the water powered Dane Bridge Mill and mill village in 1800 by Huguenots escaping religious persecution in France. Author: Karen Briddock.
http://www.as-it-was.co.uk/SupaNames/Narratives/Congleton/Millsx/Mancmillsn.htm
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The Silk Trade of Coventry
The history of the decline of domestic silk manufacturing and trade in the city of Coventry between 1851 and 1861 due to the rise of the factory system and changing market conditions. Chapter from an unpublished document from the Coventry City Record Off
http://www.hillfields.org.uk/History/Mid_Victorian_Coventry.PDF
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Lowell National Historical Park
The history of Lowell's planned textile mill city, founded during the second quarter of the 1800's, which in scale, technological innovation, and development of an urban working class, marked the beginning of the industrial transformation of America.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/lowe/loweweb/Lowell%20History/prologue.htm
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Factory Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848
Excerpts of historical texts relating to the rules of employee behaviour in the Hamilton Manufacturing Company and its boarding house in Lowell, Massachusetts, a report of 1845 state investigation into the labor conditions in the textile mill, and a 1846
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/lowell.html
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History of Textile Companies
Timeline of inventions in the textile industry, textile related US legislature, and textile industry data, from 1733 until 1938, including an extensive list of links to historical publications. From Kipnotes.com.
http://www.kipnotes.com/Textiles.htm
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History of the Whitin Family and Company
The history of the Whitin family and the Whitin Machine Works, cotton textile manufacturers and textile machinery engineers, and the impact they had on the life and times of Blackstone River Valley communities in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
http://www.blackstonerivervalley.com/navigator/towns/northbridgearticle.php
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The Life of a Weaver in the Early 19th Century
Extract from an article in the Stroud Journal, published in 1868, telling the story of textile workers and working conditions around the time of the Stroudwater Riots of 1825. Includes the poem 'A Weaving Factory' by Thomas Delaney.
http://www.jillsfamilyancestry.co.uk/Shelton_Family/History_of_Wea.html
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The Woollen industry in the Cotswolds
A history and description of the woollen industry around Woodchester and Selsley, UK, from the first mentioning of a mill in 1637 to the end of the 19th Century. From 'A History of Woodchester and Selsley' by Graham Thomas.
http://www.grahamthomas.com/history11.html
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