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Congleton, Macclesfield, Bollington and Stockport, England, were traditionally silk-weaving towns. Silk was woven in Cheshire from the late 1600s. The handloom weavers worked in the attic workshops in their own homes. Macclesfield was famous for silk buttons manufacture. The supply of silk from Italy was precarious and some hand throwing was done, giving way after 1732 to water-driven mills, which were established in Stockport and Macclesfield.

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Silk industry of Cheshire

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water of the River Bollin. There were significant early cotton mills; Cheshire was an important centre of the silk industry. Parts of Cheshire have been...

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Peter Gaddum

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Silk throwing

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for weft. Silk weaving is known to have been carried out in Sicily in the tenth century, and in 1474 there were 15,000 employed in the industry in Milan...

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Charles Roe

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Macclesfield Museums

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Stockport

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Middlewich

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History of Cheshire

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exports. Also the silk industry was developing in Macclesfield, triggered by Charles Roe building a watermill in Macclesfield in 1744. Cheshire continued to...

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Bollington

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Nantwich

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Units of textile measurement

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Crewe

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Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

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Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades

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