textiles well into the 19th century. Bamford’s writings convey the rhythms of life of a domestic weaving community, the long hours worked to complete orders, the ritualistic fortnightly journeys carrying

derived from exports. Much of its success was due to Carl Duisberg (1861-1935) a member of a ribbon-weaving family from Wuppertal who studied chemistry at the universities of Gottingen and Jena, and set up

clergyman, poet and inventor Edmond Cartwright started a revolution in the mechanisation of textile weaving. While his own machines were ineffective, other inventors developed his patent with important results [...] Arkwright, and that it was likely to grow even faster when Arkwright’s patent expired. As cotton weaving was with hand-operated looms they believed there would not be enough weavers for the yarn produced [...] industry. He retired to a farm in south-east England where he died aged 80. Although he proved that weaving by machine was possible (it was used previously only for silk ribbons), many refinements were needed

people. Since 1995 its buildings have been adapted to new uses, and a particularly notable north-lit weaving shed of 1877, named Plevna, after the Siege of Plevna of that year in the Russo-Turkish War, now

had a workshop at Pafendal, on the east side of the city. Apparently, this had only hand-looms for weaving woollen cloth, but in 1835 they established a woollen factory nearby at Schläifmille, on the site

high following a fire in 1859. Graah started weaving cotton cloth with a factory nearby at Bjølsen and in 1872 he expanded the spinning mill with a weaving shop. The factory buildings survive in new uses

iron ore quarries in Northamptonshire to collect fossils revealed by excavations. The Coventry silk weaving industry suffered severely after Richard Cobden’s treaty of 1860 allowed the free import of French

weavers. His father was a man of particular skill, able to switch between the two local specialisms, weaving plush and horse cloth, as well as understanding the manufacture of felt hats. After visiting relations

cotton textile businesses at Rouen to raise the standards of production there – one for spinning and weaving and one for calendering. He returned to Manchester to recruit expert workers. The new enterprises

1827, though Casper separated from him soon afterwards. In 1834 he opened a multi-storey cotton-weaving factory powered by waterwheels at Siebnen, importing 50 looms from Britain. He saw ways to improve [...] civil war he moved the factory and its workforce to Rüti in 1847. He devised improvements to silk weaving equipment and also built other textile machinery, machine tools, steam engines and turbines. By 1870 [...] years of manufacturing, 400,00 were produced by the company.) He opened a succession of further weaving and spinning mills for cotton or wool at Einsiedein in 1848 and then at Kottern and Kempten in Bavaria

equipment, Jacquard began to invent machinery for weaving. The inventions were not fully successful. However, when he showed one for automating pattern weaving in 1801 at the Exposition des produits de l'industrie [...] the warp and weft in weaving and so create a pattern. The sequence of cards recorded a particular pattern and they could be changed to make a different one. This made hand-weaving much faster and more [...] punched cards to determine a textile pattern it was the first widely applied example of automation in weaving. Much later this idea of ‘programming’ was a foundation of computer science. Joseph-Marie Jacquard

Bergen in Norway where he set up a company, Arne Fabrikker which operated Norway’s first mechanical weaving mill on the outskirts of the city. In 1844 he left Norway to gain experience of industry across Europe

the weaver’s hand. The invention doubled the speed of weaving. It also made it possible to weave broad cloth with one person instead of two and to weave wider pieces than before. Kay set up a partnership [...] significant figures of the early Industrial Revolution. His invention of the flying shuttle for weaving stimulated successive inventions in the mechanisation of textile production. Kay was born near the [...] affected. Nevertheless, the invention was taken up in the woollen industry and from the 1750s for weaving cotton. It was used across England by the 1790s and a century later in the vast textile industries

opened offices in Liverpool and New York. He founded over a hundred separate textile operations, for weaving, dyeing and printing cotton. Many of his factories were very large: the cotton spinning works near

Polish border but was then known as Braunau and was within the Habsburg Monarchy. Liebieg came from a weaving family and at 16 he was apprenticed to a weaver. In 1822 he set up a small wool trading business [...] Johann travelled around France and Britain observing textile businesses and expanded the factory to weave specialist woollen textiles, including merino and mohair. He separated from his brother Franz and [...] In 1845, he opened a cotton-spinning factory near Velké Hamry that from 1855 was operated with a weaving mill. In 1856 he began another cotton spinning mill at Železný Brod and a worsted spinning mill at

and was among the largest in France. He integrated production by building flax-spinning and linen-weaving mills 30-km away at Corbeil-Essonnes in 1810. He established his brother Frédéric with a canvas-printing [...] son Émile restarted it after the war. The printing works continued until 1843 and the spinning and weaving factory until 1894. The name Oberkampf is preserved in the Rue Oberkampf and metro station in Paris

Jews like the Poznańskis. While still a teenager Poznański became a rag dealer and then set up a weaving workshop. At the age of 17 he married Leonia Hertz, the daughter of a wealthy Warsaw merchant. At [...] into manufacturing. He bought up land gradually with long-term plans to build a huge steam-powered weaving mill for cotton. He opened it in 1872 with 200 looms brought from Britain. By 1879 he employed over [...] further. He expanded it by stages, adding a dye works, a finishing plant, a spinning mill and more weaving shops, and nearby a starch works, a foundry and mechanical workshops. He bought a large estate next

mechanical inventor of the nineteenth century. His inventions included machine-tools, spinning and weaving machines and locomotives. The high standards of accuracy he developed led to the interchangeability

, hospitals, kindergartens and schools, churches, a bakery, restaurants and a fire station. The weaving mill, fire station and workers’ settlement at Księży Młyn are preserved. Schiebler’s mansion there

Jacques Schiesser was born to a German-speaking family at Glarus in Switzerland. His father owned a weaving factory at Sirnach, where Jacques was trained. Jacques’ father died when he was 25 and he inherited