The History of the Shoddy-trade: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Position

appear Batley Carr billies blankets bulk carders character chartism chiefly cloth manufacture colours cotton warps course Cullingworth demand description of cloth Dewsbury district druggets Earlsheaton Elland employer and employed engaged especially exported extent fabrics fact Factory Act facture formerly fulling stocks Gomersal Heckmondwike horse power Huddersfield important improvement increased interests jenny Kersey cloth kind labour latter Leeds locality London loom weavers manual labour materials Mirfield mixed mohair mule mungo rags neighbourhood operation Ossett paddings period Petershams piecing machine plain-woven population portion power loom present principal probably purpose qualities rag and shoddy rag machines rag trade rag-wool rate of wages regards scribblers shillings per yard shoddy and mungo shoddy cloth shoddy manufacture shoddy trade soft rags spindles staple style of finish supply tion town township of Batley union cloth weaving weft whilst witneys wool woollen manufacture writer