Census Occupations - Weaver
Below are some resources I recommend if any of your ancestors in your family tree were weavers.
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Description: Someone who worked in the textile industry creating a fabric by manually interlacing the warp (vertical) threads and the waft (horizontal) threads; Someone who worked in the textile industry operating a loom that allowed the interlacing the warp (vertical) threads and the waft (horizontal) threads. In both cases the shuttle was knocked from side to side across the loom. Each time the weft passed through a gap in the warp, made by lifting alternate sets of warp yarn. By 1850 there were some 550 cotton mills in Lancashire, which had become the hub for the industry. Conditions in those mills were poor with aching head and limbs and nausea being commonplace, not to mention the over-crowding, the smell, the heat, lack of sanitation, the long hours and the repetitive, boring work. Workers developed tuberculosis, bronchitis and asthma thanks to the cotton lint in the air. See also: Beater, Fustian Weaver, Fustian Cutter, Fuller, Beamer, Cotton Feeder, Cotton Winder, Beetler, Billier, Cotton Spinner, Cotton Scavenger, Cotton Weaver, Bobbin Carrier, Bobbin Turner.
Websites:
The Worshipful Company of Weavers
Reading materials:
The Book of English Trades, and Library of Useful Arts
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