The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new
A local trade history by Matthew Blair, published in Paisley by Alexander Gardner in 1907, tracing the town's thread manufacturers for Renfrewshire readers and the firms themselves. Halftone photographs record tenement streets, mill frontages, low-roofed weavers' cottages and pillared banks, with pasted handbills and shop signs; useful for period street textures, Scottish vernacular masonry and small figures in industrial townscapes.
