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 31
ned the day. Up till the end of the eighteenth century, the cotton importedinto this country was chiefly from the West Indies. The newinventions in .spinning very much increased the demand, and the The Paisley Thread planters of the Southern States of North America took up thecultivation with… … Ha,-\ijmii.ls, ANii Clahks Mills, 1906. great effort-^ are now being made to extend the cultivation inother countries. This is the more necessary, as the home con-sumption of cotton in the United States is very large, and rapidlyincreasing. In the specialisation of industries which is constantly…
Cotton manufacture · Thread
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