By 1836, there were 73 worsted mills in the parish of Bradford and 2,738 power looms in its mills. By the 1850s around two thirds of England's wool was produced in Bradford. In its …
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First organized in the 1870s and controlled after 1893 by KAUFMAN HAYS, the Worsted Mills produced fabric for Cleveland manufacturers, as well as for garment manufacturers in other parts of the country. The company owned and operated a total of 11 mills in Ohio and on the East Coast. During the first 3 decades of the 20th century, the garment ...
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The National & Providence Worsted Mills is a large factory complex; it consists of several large brick, 1- to 4-story buildings constructed to house the spinning of worsted wool yarn and the weaving of worsted cloth. …
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The mill has concentrated mainly on the production of high-quality wool, cashmere and mohair fabrics. Fabrics differ in terms of the raw materials used, naturally, some are worsted or woollen. Of all the woollen products from Lanificio Ermenegildo Zegna, the most outstanding are the cashmere fabrics and accessories: precious, soft, warm ...
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On the opposite side of Wagon Road a three-storey building combining a wool combing mill and warehouse was built. To the north of the river was another warehouse, and close to the worsted mill was the house of the proprietors, the Hindes, now called Old Mill House. By 1799, the worsted mill was so successful that it was spinning …
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Montgomery Worsted Mills. Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Montgomery Worsted Mills, known today as Montgomery Mills, is along the Wallkill River at the end …
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In 1878, Joseph Turner started the Turner Worsted Mill, renamed the Cleveland Worsted Mill in 1902. The Cleveland Plant, located at 5932 Broadway Ave., handled every aspect of the worsted cloth process, from scouring and sorting wool to boiling the cloth. At the height of production in the 1920s, the mill ran over 500 looms and consumed between ...
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Dennis Phillips. Jamestown Reporter/Business Editor. dphillips@post-journal. The Gateway Center, located at 31 Water St., Jamestown, is the former location of the Empire Worsted Mills, which closed in 1955. The building has been nominated by the state and national registers of historic places. P-J photo by Dennis …
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A significant historical year for this entry is 1891. Location. 39° 27.277′ N, 77° 58.149′ W. Marker is in Martinsburg, West ia, in Berkeley County. Marker is on West Stephen Street west of South Church Street, on the right when traveling west. Marker is mounted at eye-level, directly on the south side of the subject building, just ...
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AMONG the worsted and woolen mills of Camden a conspicuous building is that belonging to Messrs. Howland Croft, Sons & Co., formerly Croft & Priestley, known as the Linden Worsted Mills, now located at Broadway and Jefferson avenue. The factory was established in 1880, under the present style, at the corner of Front and Linden streets, …
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S.E.H Kelly. E2 7JD. 020 3397 0449. Not open very much at all, these days, the workshop. Still, look out for the first workshop in the row, and if the lights are on, step on inside why not. Arguably the world's finest purveyors of …
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The Valley Worsted Mills were founded in 1842 by John Giles, one of the earliest worsted mills in the US. Initially the machinery was oxen-run, and the worsted yarn was used by hand knitters. In 1866 the old mill was destroyed by fire and a new one was put up the same year. The main mill was three stories with a slightly pitched roof and ...
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C & J Antich. C & J Antich is a commission weaver, warper and mender in the Yorkshire fine worsted industry, producing the finest British worsted cloth for the world's best known fashion brands. They have become the largest worsted manufacturer in the UK. They have over 40 machines, and are fully operational 120 hours every week.
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The worsted mill in Brookside was sold to the Abbot Worsted Company in 1920. Well into the 20th century agriculture remained an important part of Westford's economy with dairy farming becoming the predominant agricultural pursuit. Local orchards produced apples and peaches that were sold as far away as England, although most of the produce ...
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In 1883, Charles began working the Johnston connection to his textile empire. In that year he purchased the Providence Thread Co. on Mill Street in Thornton (Lower …
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The once-proud Botany Worsted Mills, all 1.6 million square feet, found an angel to bring it back from the brink. Along Main Avenue, the city persuaded landlords to add apartments above storefronts.
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But when World War I broke out it depleted the working ranks of our mills forcing the remaining males to work seven days a week to help fulfill company orders. World War I engulfed Europe from 1914 to 1919, it was an extremely bloody five year war with huge losses of life with very little ground won or lost.
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Hope Worsted Mills (ca 1899-1930), 942/954 E. Kentucky St. at Swan St. New uses: Artist studios, businesses and planned attic storage units, possible live-work space and more studios.
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The company first named Riverview Worsted Mills, soon to become Wyandotte Worsted, was organized in 1899 and began operations in February 1900 in a mill a bit north of Temple Street. Its product, Dunn wrote, was "fine fancy worsteds for men's wear." In 1902 the company had 80 looms "of the latest and most approved pattern"; it …
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The French Worsted complex includes 16 brick buildings totaling 413,000-square-feet and a towering smokestack. The structures were built between 1906 and 1939. The mill was owned by the firm of ...
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In 1872 Louis Downes sold his shares in the mills. A year later in the panic of 1873 the Riverside mills declared bankruptcy and the property was sold at auction. The new owner, E. P. Chapin, incorporated the mills under the name of the Riverside Worsted mills. The 1880s and 1890s were a period of expansion and changes for the Riverside Mills.
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In the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, Lawrence, Mass., was a textile mill town, specifically a woolen and worsted mill town /1/.The terms woolen and worsted refer to the two major divisions of wool processing prior to spinning into yarn. Wool that has been carded to align the fibers for spinning produces a somewhat …
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But while the date of the 23 Factory St. location's opening is now uncertain, the transformation of the 207-year-old former …
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The Winnoski-Worsted Mill also housed specific processing for worsted wool. Compared to merino, worsted is a product that is very compact and used for firm fabrics and goods like gloves, blankets and some carpet material. It is estimated that in 1902, the Winooski-Worsted Mill became part of the overall structure known as the Colchester-Merino ...
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In brief, worsted and woolen are different types of wool (long staple vs short staple), prepared in different ways, resulting in a different look and feel. Under magnification, worsted yarns look smooth with long …
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It flaunts French expertise in matters of taste. Across the street, the French Worsted Company mill office, now a restaurant, was another nationalistic effort to show how things should be done—this more sculptural, with rusticated brick piers, giant keystones and brackets, and a floating pediment. Beside the very rational design of the mills ...
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In 1883, 200 people were on the payroll at the Abbot Worsted Company located in the Forge Village and Graniteville sections of Westford, Massachusetts. They …
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Two fourteen-year-old workers at the mill in 1930, namely Lilian Marsden and her friend Phyllis. Lilian is carrying a hook on the string round her waist, which was used to wind the yarn onto the spinning frame. In 1800, Bradford's population was 13,000 and it had just one spinning mill. By 1850, the population had grown to 103,000, while the ...
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PHOTOS: Take a look inside the new City Winery in Montgomery. A boxes containing sample skeins of yarn from the Worsted Mill can be seen in the entrance …
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The Cleveland Plant, located at 5932 Broadway Ave., handled every aspect of the worsted cloth process, from scouring and sorting wool to boiling the cloth. At the height of …
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The National & Providence Worsted Mills is a large factory complex; it consists of several large brick, 1- to 4-story buildings constructed to house the spinning of worsted wool …
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The number of worsted mills also dropped from 324 to 321 during this same period.5 The state of Maine had dropped to sixth place in national production, while the number of woolen mills had decreased to fifty-seven.6. By 1931 the number of woolen mills in the United States had dropped to 381. The state of Maine dropped to thirty-six mills in ...
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Fewer people know about the next insurance stock he invested in called Western Insurance. Buffett referenced Western Insurance at a talk at Columbia in 1993, using it as an example of stocks he found by flipping through Moody's manuals: "I found Western Insurance in Fort Scott, Kansas. The price range in Moody's financial manual …
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The second mill in the Hollow trail area was the old Killingly Worsted Mill. The wooden building was built for Phebe Sayles and Sarah Potter in the late 1860's and was called the Sayles and Potter Woolen Mill. The …
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Local committees held many events and rallies. There were joint meetings of foremen & foreladies of National India Rubber with foremen of HMCo. and Cranston Worsted Mills to plan campaign events, displays, sales and encourage a rivalry between companies for the highest percentage employee participation and most dollars raised per …
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