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 183
a biogmphy of Peter Burnet ( Black Peter) in the Free PubhcLibrary. 174 The Paisley Thread with which the name of Christian Shaw, the oricrinator of thethread trade, was mixed up. We may then return by CastleStreet, where Tannahill was born, or by Queen Street, wherehe lived (p. 175). The former… … TANNAHir.I.s BiKTHlI.ACE IX CaSTI.F. StREET. who occupied the same house and worked at the same loom,that had been used by Tannahill, and is kindly given to us byhis sons, Messrs. George and Robert Archibald, manuflicturersin Paisley. George Archibald, Senr., says:— I have pleasure in sending you a…
Cotton manufacture · Thread
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