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 82
e labour of the day terminating at 6 p.m. Thetotal working hours per week are fifty-five and a half Present Position of the Thread Industry j^ The consumption of bobbin wood is enormous, and threatenedat one time the practical deforestation of Scotland. Pirnmill,in Arran, marks the site of a saw… … AuciiiKAi.D Coats, Esu.,CuAnniAN or Messhs. J. & P. Coats, Limited. the bulk of the wood now used in Paisley for the thread tradeis imported from the North of Europe and from North America,and annually averages fifteen thousand tons, producing abouttwo hundred and fifty millions of spools—a…
Cotton manufacture · Thread
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