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 25
till marked by a horseshoe inserted in the centre of the causeway. The whole storyshows an amount of ignorance, superstition, and cruelty, even 20 The Paisley Thread among persons of education and position—two hundred and tenyears ago—almost beyond belief. Whatever may have been thought of the part… … I?Air..\iinA\ HorsE. Reverend John Miller, minister of Kihnaurs. Left a widowin 1721, she returned for a time to Bargarran, and afterwardssettled in Johnstone. At that time ladies in good position made a pastime of thespinning-wheel. Mrs. Miller excelled in the production of finelinen yarn, such as…
Cotton manufacture · Thread
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