Textiles
Description
This file contains items on textile industries, including a photocopy of Arthur J. Saundry's article on the tucking mill, from an issue of 'Old Cornwall' (1960); a typed letter and notes, from Fred Brown of Huddersfield to Stewart Sanderson, on superstition in textile factories (3 April 1961); Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby's article on the demise of the textile industry in Wensleydale, extracted from 'Country Life' (21 October 1965), pp. 1022-1023; K. E. Marsden's article on mungo and shoddy manufacturers in Yorkshire, extracted from 'The Ridings' magazine, volume 2, number 1 (February-March, 1965), pp. 26-27; an original late-19th century lace-maker's bobbin gauge; Stanley Howard's article on the lacemakers of Ripon, extracted from 'The Ridings', volume 2, number 1 (February-March 1965), pp. 34-37; John Cornforth's article, 'The Art of the Trimmings Maker', extracted from 'Country Life' (10 December 1970), pp. 1109-1112; Beryl Platts's article, 'Patchwork Traditions of America', extracted from 'Country Life' (6 January 1972), pp. 24-25; E. R. R. Green's article on the restoration of a beetling mill at Wellbrook, County Tyrone, extracted from 'Country Life' (24 August 1972), pp. 476-477; and mounted newspaper and magazine cuttings from the 'Keighley News', 'The Guardian', the 'Yorkshire Post', the 'Yorkshire Evening Post', the 'Dagens Nyheter' and 'Country Life', on the hand wool-comber Thomas Hanson, Lerry Tweed Mills at Talybont, rush-weaving, a halter-loom, ganseys, Fair-Isle knitting (in Swedish), lacemaking and mat-making. File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | p29hz3gs |
| IRN | 410617 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/3/7/14 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/p29hz3gs |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Crafts, Trades and Industries |
| Date | 1960-1981 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of photocopied and typed papers, magazine extracts and mounted magazine and newspaper articles. |