The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new (1907)
Blair, Matthew, d. 1908 · Paisley, A. Gardner · leaf 120
llott, with his steel pens, drove them out. The quillpen, the wafer, and the sealing wax went out together, andcarried the seals with them. The shawl trade centred in the little stretch of Causeysidefrom the foot of St. Mirren Street to Forbes Street, andalong that street to the River Cart. St.… … St. MiiiiiEN Street, 186,3. In Causeyside, in those days, might be seen old RobertKerr—with his gold spectacles, cheery face, and active step—come over from Thread Street to buy some Thibet yarn orspun silk, with the various quantities written on scraps of 11 2 The Paisley Thread paper at the…
Cotton manufacture · Thread
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