- silk
weaver in 1775,
George Courtauld first worked on his own as silk
throwster.
Between 1785 and 1794 he made a
number of
visits to America. In 1794...
- Macclesfield, and sold to ICI Fibres. ICI
licensed the
product to
various throwsters. The
largest producer was
William Tatton of L****, and the
Golborne factory...
- and have
since ceased to
exist include the following:
Combmakers Silk
Throwsters Silkmen Pinmakers Soap
Makers Hatband Makers Long
Bowstring Makers The...
- the
youngest child of
James Maze (d. 1794), a
prosperous Huguenot silk
throwster and merchant. She was
bilingual in
English and
French and said to be very...
-
organzines and
trams call the
surplus "manufacturer's waste." A silk "
throwster"
receives the silk in
skein form, the
thread of
which consists of a number...
-
refer to the
whole process: reeling,
throwing and doubling, and silk
throwsters would speak of
throwing as
twisting or spinning. Silk
throwing was originally...
- only four survived, and
their son George,
apprenticed in 1761 to a silk
throwster,
began the link to the
textile company Courtaulds. They ran a successful...
- to the
collector of
excise but
later ran the
Derby Silk Mill as a silk
throwster where silk
thread was
prepared for weaving. As a
child or
young person...
- the
lease of
Sherborne House was
taken over by
Robert Willmott, a silk
throwster.
Subsequent tenants were
Major Andrew Cathcart Bogle VC of the 23rd Foot...
-
director of
Courtaulds Ltd at
Coventry in Warwickshire, the son of a silk
throwster at Macclesfield. He was "one of the
builders and
guiding figures of the...
