Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen information

The Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen (YSTC) was a trade union representing workers in a variety of textile work in Yorkshire. The union was established...

the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association remaining members of the TUC. Of the unions which...

Ireland Textile Workers' Union Northern Textile and Allied Workers' Union Operative Bricklayers' Society (OBS) Port of Liverpool Staff Association Port of London...

recruitment of literate craftsmen, skilled workers, foremen, and managers who supervised the emerging textile factories and coal mines. Much of the labour...

In 1946 five societies – the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, the Red Rose Guild of Craftsmen, the Senefelder Club, the Society of Scribes and Illuminators...

Tutor in Textiles at the Royal College of Art in 1981, later being promoted to Course Leader, Tapestry. She oversaw the move into School of Fine Art in...

city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss. It is the county town of Yorkshire. The city has...

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. Other...

A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but...

Retrieved 28 August 2010. MacCarthy 1994, p. 596. "Society of Designer Craftsmen". Society of Designer Craftsmen. Retrieved 28 August 2010. "Endeavours towards...

In 1875, furniture designers, textile, jewellers, glass-workers, and other craftsmen were officially given the status of artists by the French government...

The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace...

England, grew to become one of the most important cities in England during the Middle Ages due to its booming cloth and textiles trade. The city was noted...

Alcester. Analysis of craftsmen's names in medieval records suggests that the major industries of medieval Birmingham were textiles, leather working and...

Alcock, Kings and Warriors, Craftsmen and Priests in Northern Britain AD 550–850 (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland), ISBN 0-903903-24-5...

1950s she exhibited her silverware with the Red Rose Guild of Craftsmen at venues across Yorkshire and Lancashire. Himsworth ceased exhibiting her work in...

Statute of the Jewry. This banned Jews from their previous role in making loans, and demanded that they work as merchants, farmers, craftsmen or soldiers...

and may well have been wound around with textile. Owning a sword was a matter of high honour. Persons of status might own ornately decorated swords...

on different types of looms in order to create hundreds of different patterns. Adire and Aso Oke are some of the popular textiles in Yoruba land. Adire(tie...

(Autumn 1997). "Painted Cloths: History, Craftsmen and Techniques". Textile History. 28 (2): 119–48. "A Brief History of the Mander Family". History website...

Enid Marx / Margaret Lambert Collection of folk art from around the world which inspired the textile designs of 20th century artist Enid Marx. According...

with 165 houses, of which only one was made of brick. Inhabitants earned their living in agriculture and handicrafts. Among craftsmen, there were 22 shoemakers...

of "silk throwing" was mastered in Tuscany in the 13th century. The silk works used waterpower and some regard these as the first mechanized textile mills...